Word: meaningly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...carefully taught men from some other college, Our victories in rowing, thanks to Col. Bancroft's better coaching, proves the principle; our defeat in foot-ball, thanks partly to Mr. Camp's better coaching, proves the principle also. Moreover, coaching by a competent person does not mean merely better work of the same kind. It means a different kind of work, attention to details, a gradual improvement in the game, elimination of objectionable features. A score of instances could be mentioned in which superior head work, thoughtful training, such as a student cannot be expected to give has helped...
...part of members to friends and out siders, parading the advantages of the society, and the cheapness with which it supplies its members as compared with the higher charges of the retail dealers. Talk of this kind is to be regretted. It strengthens the impression that the society means to carry on a general competition with the retailers, and makes the friends and business acquaintances of the latter look unfavorably at the society. In this way it increases the difficulties of the superintendent in obtaining goods. The society exists exclusively for the benefit of persons connected with the university...
...eleven played a practice game with the Michigan University team on Jarvis field Thursday afternoon, and defeated them by a score of 4 points to 0. It was expected that our team would score an overwhelming victory, but the western men proved no mean opponents. Owing to the rules of the faculty, play was called very late and darkness set in long before time was called, so that the last half-hour was rather a contest of luck than skill. The ball hugged the Michigan goal throughout nearly all the first three-quarters, our men scoring a touchdown from...
...Doeskin trousers are becoming popular in South", is the enigmatical sentence contained in the item column of a recent number of the Yale News. whatever this mysterious utterance may mean, we must remonstrate with our esteemed contemporary for permitting such dangerous secrets to be thus rudely brought to the garish light of day in its columns. It is such things as these that fasten the sligma of indiscretion and irresponsibility upon the college press. The News has been indiscreet; let it reform...
...after Sunday, November 18, 1883, the telegraphic time-signals sent automatically from this Observatory will conform to the time of the seventy-fifth meridian, to be known as "Eastern Time." This time is exactly five hours slower than Greenwich Mean Time. and 15 minutes 44.5 seconds slower than Boston State House Time heretofore furnished. It is intended that the new time shall be given to the public at noon on the Sunday named above; but as the Observatory signals are the means by which the persons in charge of -public time-pieces will make the necessary preparation for the change...