Word: lighting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...last campaign explains it. The mugwump element in education is abroad, and it means to stay abroad until Greek 99 has learned its place and Latin 40 will acknowledge its existence. The cry for utility is slowly enlarging into something more than the call of an infant "crying for light." And it purposes to have the light...
...being made to make good the loss of the strong players who graduated with eighty-five. According to the Yale papers, the great difficulty is to get a heavy rushe line. A large number of candidates for the eleven have appeared, but they are for the most part light men, although very active and ready to do hard, careful work on the team. At Princeton the prospects for a strong team are very cheering, and there seems to be a good deal of confidence in the college that their representatives will give Yale a hard fight this year. There...
...examinations. This is an old grievance, it is true, and one that has often been commented upon, yet its constant recurrence seems to call for even further notice. The only answer made to complaints on this subject is that the system of long examination is designed to bring to light the men who have failed to keep up with their work properly. Yet the force of this argument is greatly diminished when it is found that, in many courses, the harder working members of the elective have failed to complete the paper in the time prescribed. Another point...
...crew itself is light, averaging eight pounds lighter than the '87 freshman crew, and four pounds lighter than the '86 crew. After getting on the water, the crew developed many bad faults; the men rushed the recover and hung badly at both ends of the stroke, they slumped on the finish, their time was poor, and they failed to get in their weight. It can not be expected that a freshman crew will row in anything like perfect form; but after making due allowance for this, the outlook was discouraging. The men seemed to work hard and conscienciously without making...
...made by taking a strip of tough, thin paper, five or six inches in length and one in width, fastening at each end a match, writing the slip full of memoranda likely to prove useful, rolling up each end until the two cylinders meet, and then by a light elastic fastening them together. This crib is held in the palm of the hand and worked by the thumb, the thin paper being easily worked from one roll to the other as occasion demands. Cuffs are also marked with hieroglyphics, and the part of the shirt bosom covered by the vest...