Word: past
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...better be silent. In lacrosse, tennis and track athletics there can be but little doubt every effort will be made to better our records, and there seems to be great probability that these efforts will be successful. In short, although we can get but little comfort from the past, the future still seems to smile kindly upon us. How honest this kindness really...
...record made by the Technology eleven during the past fall was four defeats and one victory...
...opinions of the Base Ball Association of the subject, it seems to us that it would increase the interest in their games if they followed the lead of the National Base Ball League, and abolished the foul bound catch. The tendency in the game of base ball during the past few years has been for the fielding and pitching to increase in a marked manner out of all proportion to the increase in the ability of the batsman to hit the ball. It is becoming quite a veriety in a well played game for a man to reach first base...
...report of Prof. Pickering detailing the work done at the Observatory during the past year was presented Wednesday to the regular visiting committee of the overseers. The most noticeable feature of the report is the cry for money, the three million cry of President Eliot. A temporary endowment of $5000 a year expires now and the work of the observatory will be seriously crippled in future unless a large increase is made in the permanent endowment or unlocked for contributions and bequests are regularly made for running expenses. How much this loss of the temporary endowment is, can be realized...
...study of the classics. He shows that since the time of Luther it has been the dominent force in education. He traces the various phases of its development, and gives most carefully drawn pictures of the men who were distinguished in this field. But the study of the past does not blind this author to the demand of to day. The historical development of the last three centuries, he says, may be defined as a slow but steady progress toward the formation of a distinct modern culture, separating itself gradually from the ancient civilization out of which it grew...