Word: numberous
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...game of basket ball requires greater quickness and agility than any other indoor game in which a number of men play together, and is therefore especially valuable as preliminary training for all out-door sports. The game as played a few years ago by the Y. M. C. A. teams was extremely dangerous, and serious accidents occurred frequently...
...Every elector shall vote for three candidates for Marshals, indicating by 1, 2, 3, his preference for First, Second and Third Marshal. Of these three elected, that candidate receiving the highest number of votes cast for First Marshal shall be elected First Marshal; of the other two elected. that one whose total vote for First and Second Marshal is the greater, shall be Second Marshal; the other candidate being Third Marshal...
...Every elector shall vote for three candidates for each committee, indicating by "C" his preference for Chairman. The three candidates receiving the highest number of votes for each committee shall be declared elected. Of these three elected, that one receiving the highest number of votes for Chairman shall be the Chairman of the Committee...
...other offices, an elector shall vote for not more than one candidate; and the candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected...
...current number of "The Bookman" (Doda, Mead and Company) contains a characteristic portrait of Kipling by W. Nicholson, a poem by James Lane Allen, and twenty pages of interesting literary gossip. There are also articles on miscellaneous literary subjects, London and Paris letters, reviews of new books, and chapters of a serial story. A portrait of C. M. Flandrau is accompanied by a paragraph, which says: "Harvard Episodes is not to be hastily ranked with the college story-book, which, so curiously amusing to insiders, is as curiously deceptive to outsiders...