Word: lies
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Four courts are laid out side by side so that altogether they form one large court and the centre lines of all the courts lie consecutively in one straight line. Separate games are played simultaneously on all four courts, and all the points made by the teams on one side of the line are added to make the score of that side. Teams or single players on the same side of the centre line may be shifted from one court to another so that the greatest strength may be concentrated on the weaker or more exposed positions. The positions...
...expedition will start from New York on June 25, immediately after the close of the college year. The course will lie along the Labrador coast to the west of Greenland, past the fjords and the Norse ruins to Melvill bay to the Peary party. Then the Kane, Hayes and Greeley winter quarters will be visited, and after a tour through Greenland the homeward trip will be begun, reaching New York about the middle of September...
...interest and the glory of these Venetians lie in their masterly use of color. Whatever their subject, it was beautified by wonderful contrasts of light and shade. Color is usually associated with gaiety and frivolity; but those old masters did not treat it gaily or flippantly, and it forms the great charm and beauty of their work. Their bold massing, their sharp and delicate contrasts, have never been equalled...
...weeks. Course A consists of lectures with experimental demonstrations, in which the facts and theories which constitute our modern knowledge of the psychical life will be explained and illustrated. As a knowledge of psychology is especially important to teachers, these lectures will lay stress on those problems which lie on the border between psychology and pedagogy, and will emphasize the educational bearings of psychical facts. Course B would be given in case a sufficient number of interested persons from course A wished to take it. It would be open to no others. The course would cover the whole field...
...would attain this longed for period of perfection we must begin by overcoming the difficulties which lie at our feet. We all want to begin at the top of the ladder without climbing up round by round through every obstacle and disappointment until we reach the goal...