Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...letter to the leading colleges for information in regard to the status of fencing in these colleges and the chances of being able to turn out a good team. This will be an informal letter and will not commit the association to any action. It is hoped that West Point and Annapolis will send teams to compete next year...
...duplicate whist tournament has at length been finished, after a very close fight among the three couples that played against Yale. First place was gained by Salinger and Gunnison, who won each of the deciding matches against the other two couples by one point. Second place is a tie between Denison and Booth, and Hall and Jones. The tie will not be played...
Debating is a case in point. Until intercollegiate debates were begun, the press found nothing of much comment in the forensic efforts of undergraduates, though those in their initial stages were even more significant than they are in the present development of the art of debate. Given, however, the exaggerated interest of intercollegiate competition, and each debate receives almost the attention of a football game...
...campaign from this on develops itself into an attack upon the stronghold of China in two lines - one through Manchuria to Monkden, and the other from some point on the Gulf of Pechili. Field Marshall Yamagala crossed the Yalu and defeated the Chinese at Kin Lieu Ching. His army then advanced a short distance into Manchuria, where the winter stopped their approach to Monkden...
...library building for Columbia, for which President Low has made himself responsible, will be erected in the centre of a terrace occupying the highest point of land of the new site for the college buildings. About it are to be grouped in a rectangular court the minor buildings, pierced by the southern, eastern and western approaches, all on the axial lines of the building, which is to face south. Access to the southern or principal facade will be gained from One Hundred and Sixteenth street by a flight of steps 325 feet wide, surmounted by granite posts and an iron...