Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Directors of Memorial Hall are planning a dinner at which they can commemorate their trials and victories during the past year...
...University of Pennsylvania has gained during the past year, fifteen new professors and instructors. There are now 143 active teachers and 4 emeritus professors. Two new departments have been added, those of Physical Culture and Biology...
...Trade was not so large as at the two preceding lectures, but nevertheless comfortably filled Sever 11. The lecturer devoted his time to discussing the accusation of protectionists that the free trade agitation was incited by British influence, and their claims that the prosperity of our country for the past quarter of a century and the high wages which laborers have received, were due to the present high tariff...
This is the scientific age; everything is now governed by rule, everything is bound by precision. And in the strides that the world has made during the past century, it is strange to see how our athletics have evolved from a sort of chaos into sharply defined, well regulated sciences, requiring the action of mind as well as of body to perfect them...
...work, our crew is rowing in good form, and at an exceedingly fast rate for this season of the year. The class crews are all distanced by it with ease, although they have the advantage of lighter barges. Mr. C. P. Curtis has acted as coach, and during the past week Mr. G. Agassiz, '84, has several times been out with the crew. Since last fall, when two eights were in training, the less desirable men have been transferred to the class crews, until the number remaining has been reduced to the following eight...