Word: moment
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...neutral ground. Geography and college representation both emphatically deny this. On the special student question, also, Harvard men are united. The special students are an integral part of the Harvard system, just as much as the Sheffield Scientific students are of Yale. No Harvard man can think for a moment of their being declared ineligible for athletic contests...
...will be seen that in 1869-70 Harvard led Yale numerically in two states, Wisconsin and California. Now we lead them in five states, Michigan, Wisconsin, Indiana, California and Iowa. The correspondent of the Advocate has chosen a very inopportune moment for taking up his clumsy weapons. If he had been here in '79-80 he might have found some basis for his argument. There was a strange proportional falling off in the number of western men here between '69-70 and '79-80. But in the last ten years, the very ones chosen by the Advocate's correspondent...
...track to the middle of the floor. It has been constructed so as not to obstruct the floor except when in use, by having one half made in a solid piece, fastened by hinges under the track, so that it can be raised out of the way at a moment's notice by a rope fastened to the other end, and having the other half built in sections so that it can be taken to pieces, By means of the plane the jumper can throw his weight on the spring-board with much more effect than when...
...settle this question-not in some hastily-called meeting, but with deliberation and thought. Do not let us drift into a dual league through mere inertia. It cannot but have a bad effect on the country at large. Statistics show that our prestige is waning; it is a serious moment for us, a time to throw off our indifference and meet the question squarely...
Professor F. D. Allen has in his leisure moment set to music all the odes of Horace...