Word: lowered
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...University crew raced a mile and seven-eighths, paced for the first mile and a quarter by the University second crew and the last half-mile by the Freshmen. On the start, opposite the Union Boat Club, the first crew drew away from the second, although rowing a lower stroke, and after the first quarter-mile led by a length. The University crew was rowing about 32 and the second about two points higher. This lead was maintained for the next half-mile; but going under Harvard Bridge the second crew raised the stroke and gained on the first until...
...scholarly interests of which it has charge." In order to show that curtailment of athletics will not improve the scholarly interests, that athletic idleness will not be conducive to more study, we must know in just what respect the interests are now affected. Is the standard of scholarship lower than before athletics became so general? Are the athletes failing to comply with the requirements of the Office? Are their records below the general average? Is attendance at lectures, both by competitors and spectators, affected by athletics? Are marks lower during football and baseball season than during the winter months...
...into the ground, as most large telescopes are, it rests on a great hollow cylinder immersed in a tank of water. A tank lined with thick walls of solid concrete was first sunk in the ground, and in this receptacle, ballasted with about 10 tons of iron at its lower end, floats the steel cylinder forming the polar axis of the telescope...
...years to raise the legal standard of the sailor. The East and West Side divisions both practice among foreigners and the lowest classes, and do much good in settling the petty cases of the neighborhood. With these objects in view, and partly to discourage the litigious spirit among the lower classes, the purpose of the society is primarily to keep cases out of court, an object in which they were successful last year in 8-9 of their cases...
...Hall this evening during the dinner hour to determine whether the Harvard Dining Association shall retain the new system or revert to the old. The last report of the Dining Association seems to prove conclusively the success of the present plan, since the average board is about 40 cents lower than at a corresponding period of last year, and the enrolled membership 251 greater than at the first of March, when the new scheme was adopted...