Word: marking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...wish to call attention to one respect in which the privileges of the library are abused by some members of the University. I refer to the habit of marking books. Many books, especially those which are reserved in the reading room, and which all the members of a course have to use, are disfigured throughout by underscorings and marginal lines, and even by marginal comments, which become in some cases little controversies between unknown critics. Aside from the distracting effect of these marks on the reader, causing him involuntarily to emphasize portions usually least important, the practice is morally wrong...
...Yale Athletic Association Games last Saturday brought out several prominent athletes. Conneff won the mile from scratch in 4.342/6, L. Liebgold was first in the mile walk from the ten second mark, and Winsor, of Penn. won the high jump. Champion Sweeney also cleared 6 ft. 2 in. in an exhibition jump. Boardman of Yale, a new man, won the half mile from the 35 yard mark in the creditable time of 2052/5. The sophomores won the class team race. No Harvard men competed...
...presented themselves but the number has slowly been reduced to about thirty-two, omitting the battery candidates. So far, the two most promising freshmen in the squad are Litchfield and Thompson. The former comes from Brooklyn, where he played on the Brooklyn Latin School, and the latter from St. Mark's School. The rest of the candidates are men who have played on their class teams or on the 'varsity. Every afternoon the men are given about eight grounders to field. They then practice the ways of sliding and running to bases and follow this up with a short...
...MARK-DOWN sale of fine ready made clothing equal to custom work. Fine Kersey overcoats, lap seam, raw edge, extra long ulsters. Black worsted clay diagonal suits in single-breasted, doublebreasted and cut-away frocks. Also fine mixed suits. It would pay you to purchase these garments at the price, and lay them away for next season as they are all staple goods. 37 Otis street, corner Summer, under Freeman National Bank...
Rifle shooting.- At a mark, different distances, on a field near Athens...