Word: means
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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This telegraphic instrument records the beats of the Observatory mean time standard clock at the even seconds, omitting the fifty-eighth second of each minute, and the last twenty-six seconds of each five minutes...
...place, and it was always a pleasure to feel that unless under the most adverse circumstances the other three colleges could count on a better place. Now however either Yale, Princeton or Harvard will be obliged to feel the mortification of tailing the list, and this consideration is no mean incentive for hard work. We heartily trust that this view of the matter may have all due effect upon our team and that they will do their best to keep us from this hitherto almost unattainable position...
There is a practice here, of long standing, nourished by folly and disregard of gentlemanly honor, allowed to grow and increase by the indifference of the college and of its officials, which has long passed its day, if it ever had one,-we mean the cowardly joke of sign stealing. It seems now a recognized thing, that to lead a proper and full college life, one must steal one or more signs-the greater the number the greater the glory. But stealing it is, and to the college at large we doubt if the difference between the undergraduate who "rags...
...ball and rowing-and Dr. Hamlin may intend to assign collegiate honors to the students who succeed in training themselves down to the best possible weight. There is a good deal that is plausible in this view of the matter, and the advent of the weighing-machine may thus mean that Middlebury intends henceforth to give greater prominence to the higher studies...
...possible that with the exception of Mr. Wilkie Collins, nobody will agree with me when I say that our boys of the upper and middle classes, between the ages of fourteen and eighteen years, pass a great deal too much of their time at play. By play I mean rowing, cricket, foot ball, lawn tennis, and other athletic exercises generally. Athletic training turns out thousands of brave, brawny, healthy young Englishmen, who are utterly unable to earn their own living at home, and who, if they emigrated, could, as a means of support, only look to manual labor, in which...