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Word: minor (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...students here are ignorant, strike the reader forcibly, and more honest, unprejudiced criticism is crammed in a few pages than has appeared in print for many a day. The last few pages of the number are devoted to a study of the origin of "The Treadmill in America" and minor topics, original documents, notes...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Review of Magazine of American History. | 12/1/1887 | See Source »

...culture in Scribner later, there is hardly an excuse now for the prejudiced and offensive view of the game which is taken by people in general-people, too, who have rarely, if ever, seen an exhibition, but who form their opinion from heresay. There is danger, no doubt, of minor hurts as there is in everything which enters into the domain of athletics; there is danger, remotely, of serious accident as there is likewise in the most simple forms of gymnastic exercises. But for dash and vigor and the highest sense of physical perfection which it is probably ever allowed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Game of Foot-Ball. | 11/22/1887 | See Source »

Technology has won the championship in the minor college league, with a clean record of four victories and no defeats. Daremouth is second with one defeat- that by Technology...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 11/21/1887 | See Source »

...minor college league closes next Saturday. By their victory over Amherst last Saturday the Technology team won the championship...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/15/1887 | See Source »

...Tarbell, of Washington contributes "Horace Greeley's Practical Advice to the Reconstructionists in Mississippi;" and T. J. Chapman, A. M., writes an interesting paper on the "Religious Movement in 1800." The shorter articles are varied and entertaining. The number concludes with its carefully edited departments of Original Documents, minor topics, notes, queries, replies, socleties, etc., well filled, its "Historic and Social Jottings" illustrated, and a dozen or more ably written book reviews...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Magazine of American History Review. | 11/3/1887 | See Source »

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