Word: periodic
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Europe and in America. So enormous has become the store of materials now available to the historian and so insistent the demand that no important part of this shall be disregarded, that an individual writer who nowadays aspires to deal in authoritative fashion with all the phases and periods of the nation's history may indeed be accounted unduly ambitious. The historical student of our day and generation may well find in the mastery of a single period or a single phase the profitable employment of an industrious lifetime. Hence it has appeared to be only through the employment...
...class tug-of-war was intensely exciting, but was marred by the fact that the pulls lasted 2 minutes instead of 1 minute, the regulation length. Had the period been shorter the result might have been different. 1910 first pulled 1911 about four feet, but the Freshmen had more power toward the last and pulled the Sophomores nearly half the length of the Gymnasium. This was characteristic of the other tugs also. The final pull was won by the Freshmen. The human wheelbarrow race was very amusing, and resulted in a victory for W. M. Rand...
...first period, the score stood 16 to 9 in favor of Andover, and the lead was maintained up to the last five minutes of play, when the score stood 21 to 15. Then Miller, ably assisted by Dow, took a splendid brace and succeeded in winning the game for the Freshman, Miller and Dow excelled for the Freshmen and Swihart for Andover...
...Historical sketch of the development of the street railway system, with particular attention to the attitude of the public toward franchise grants during the early period of street railway development...
...critical point in the new scheme. It will probably entail a loss of at least $100 a week, which must be made up by increase in membership, either transient of permanent, if the finances of the Hall are not to be disastrously affected. Since the mid-year examination period closed the membership list has been growing and is now 920. The Hall can be run most economically when the membership is about 1200, and if that figure is reached the Directors of the Hall feel sure that the cost per week under the new system can be brought considerably below...