Word: longer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...substance of the provision in regard to the position of the boats at the start: Each boat shall carry a flag nine by five inches on a metal rod eighteen inches high, the rod to be fixed perpendicularly at the stem of the shorter boat, and on the longer boat at a distance from the stem equal to half the difference in the lengths of the boats...
...buoys. Each boat shall be provided with a metal staff or rod eighteen (18) inches high, carrying a flag measuring nine (9) by five (5) inches, of the color of its university. Such rod shall be fixed perpendicularly at the stem of the shorter boat, and on the longer boat at a distance forward from the centre of said boat equal to half the length of the shorter boat. Each boat shall be started even by these flags, so fixed on the starting line, and shall be adjudged to have completed the course when said flags shall have crossed...
...operative tickets differ from the old ones in requiring the signature of the member. The list of affiliated tradesmen is no longer printed on the back...
...coming meeting of the Inter-Collegiate Base-Ball Association will be one of especial importance, as on its decision will depend the longer continuance of the association in its present shape. A new aspect is put upon affairs by the announcement that Amherst will under no circumstances remain in the association after the present year. Whether this will have any influence on the action of the convention remains to be seen. It looks now as if it would make Dartmouth's hold on her present position even more uncertain than at present, for now that Amherst is no longer...
...interest by the scientific world. The first number fully comes up to all expectations, both as regards typography and matter. The journal has a very artistic heading designed by Mr. C. H. Moore of Harvard, and is well printed on excellent paper, of convenient shape and size. Among the longer articles we notice contributions by Prof. Asa Gray, Mr. E. H. Hall and Samuel Kneeland. A very interesting letter on a "Singular Meteoric Phenomenon," witnessed from the deck of the Alaska, is illustrated by excellent diagrams. One of the most valuable features of the journal is the "Weekly Summary...