Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...third classes have already elected their committees. The second class chose a president, vice-president, secretary, and two committee men; the third class a president, vice-president, and secretary. The committees from the first and fourth classes will be elected in a day or two. Nothing of this kind has ever been done at the Medical School before and good results are expected from...
...some years past there has been a widespread idea that there is a conflict between the truths of science and religion. By many people religion has been taken as a kind of sentiment rather than a rational belief. The first real difficulty in the way has been the Biblical account of the creation of the world in six days. In view of the gradual development of other planets, it seems hard to believe that the world could have reached so high a state of development in six days. But this account is not to be taken too literally...
...class baseball candidates immediately. Less than four weeks remain now before the first class game and of these one week is lost by the vacation. Certainly three weeks is none too long a time for training new men or even old men who have had no practice of any kind for months. It seems to us a mistake to put it off until the last moment. The class crews practice for several months for one, or at most two, races; why then should the baseball teams only practice for two weeks for twice this number of contests? It is safe...
Instruction in those days was a much simpler matter than it is now, being chiefly routine work and that not very severe. The few text books used were of the most elementary kind and are now almost unknown. The condition of the library was very unsatisfactory. There was no income provided for the purchase of books, all books being acquired either by presentation or by special appropriation. Not until 1863 was the card catalogue introduced by Ezra Abbott who spent three years in perfecting this device which is now in general use in all libraries. Until 1857 all examinations...
There was no gymnasium at that time, and, in fact, no organized sport of any kind. The rowing season lasted for a few weeks only and the training for races was extremely short and light. The crews rowed in large barges. Football was played for a short time in the fall on the delta where Memorial now stands. It was open to all comers, but was only participated in by a few of the six hundred students...