Word: pointedly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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During the last month more than a score of cadets have practiced catching and picking up grounders in the gymnasium at West Point. Last year the team was a good one, and nearly all who played in the principal games of the season are at the academy. New material of unusually good quality is also at hand, so that with a fair share of practice the cadets will have a strong team at the beginning of the season...
...strengthening the corps of instruction. The progress in this direction has been remarkable ever since Professors Shaler and Hollis, and Mr. Chamberlain have been in charge of affairs. But their purpose is, not to trust solely to their own judgment, but to call on practical men to point out practical methods of improvement and enlargement...
...Cornell has issued the following letter: "I regret to announce that A. Abraham, of Brooklyn, has been defeated in this efforts to enrich Cornell University. Mr. Abraham anthorized me to purchase the late Ernest Renan's great oriental library as a gift to Cornell. His offer was on the point of aceptance when Mme. Calmanne Levy, widow of Renan's publisher, telegraphed that she will present it to the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris...
...record time at the fall games; W. H. Bird, a N. Y. Athletic Club man; Williams, why rode second in the Princeton-Columbia intercollegiate meet last spring; George Ruppert; Morrill, who won his heat in the intercollegiate race two years ago, and Captain Fearing, who scored Columbia's only point in the '95 intercollegiate meet. Besides these there are a good many less prominent riders who will probably come out during the coming months. Owing to the fact that there are such a number of good men, the competition for positions on the track team will cause the utmost rivalry...
...student body. Professor Sumner has been closely identified with Yale for almost as long a time as any member of the faculty, so he knows whereof he speaks when he declares his convictions that the undergraduates here appreciate learning more than they did thirty years ago, a point which will be incredulously accepted among many in spite of the experience and trust worthiness of its author. His opinion is, that the individual desire for learning and improvement is the only source of university improvement and that graduate assistance would better not be asked in any branch. "The history of athletics...