Word: lightness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...baseball. A few days later in its issue of November 16 under the heading "Harvard's Way of Doing it" the following article was published in the New York Herald. "Philadelphia, Pa., Nov. 15. 1889.- Another instance of the prevalent and pernicious system of "ringing in" outsiders came to light here today. R. S. Ammerman of Danville, Pa., is a member of the University of Pennsylvania Law School and a very fine base ball player. An influential member of the Harvard nine was in town yesterday and today endeavoring to get Ammerman to leave Pennsylvania and enter Harvard. He offered...
...work their rivals. Other things being equal that team will win which does the hardest and most intelligent work. This is especially true in crew rowing. It is a fact that more than one Harvard team has lost through fear of over training. By beginning early with light work the men can gradually increase the amount with beneficial results and without injury. That is why we invite all likely men to begin training at once...
...conservation of energy, have both originated in England. In fact all great advances in the domain of Physics have been made by Anglo-Saxons. The German experiments of the last two years only serve to illustrate the great principle enunciated ten years ago by Clerk Maxwell, namely, that heat, light, and electricity are all one and the same thing, and that we receive them all by electro-magnetic impulses transmitted through the ether from the sun. In the last one hundred years our ideas on physical subjects have immensely advanced. Benjamin Franklin's machine for producing electricity is a hundred...
...well as to this one-sided agitation for a dual league. How about that Yale mass meeting which was to follow our lead? We graduates have a profound distrust of Yale in these matters, and we do not like to see our college put in so undignified a light before the world. Moreover, we have watched these matters for years, and we know that on the average Princeton is going to be far more fair and gentlemanly in these matters than Yale. Princeton had a number of available graduate players this year, and she did what she is firmly convinced...
LOST.- On Friday evening, between Little's block and Mrs. Morgan's, a silk handkerchief striped light and dark blue. Please return to Leavitt and Pierce...