Word: points
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...point of taste the Glee Club shingle is ahead of any other displayed in front of University...
...amount of information about the chapels, dining-halls, "quads," and student life in general at Oxford. But I do not remember that any one of them gives the best time made in the quarter-of-a-mile race or the one-hundred yard dash; and this is the point I wish to come to, namely, Athletics. The question is frequently asked, "Why do the English university men excel the American students in everything relating to Athletics?" And quite as often the answer is given, "Because they are a hardier race and live in a better climate." This reply is true...
...ball-clubs succeeded in pitching around the corner of a fence built at right angles with a line drawn from pitcher's stand to catcher's. We trust that this absolute proof that the "twist" is a possibility will silence the enemies and rejoice the admirers of this greatest "point" in our national game...
...classes in college, and the extreme narrowness of the means of ingress, a rush takes place every morning at the Chapel door. Now a rush is certain to please most of the members of the youngest class, and many of the members of the class next in point of age; but a rush is distasteful to the majority of the students, and is especially so if it involves a possibility of not getting into one's seat in time. The remedy is very simple, and, consisting as it does in merely unlocking the side doors of the Chapel, requires...
Take, again, the reportorial department. The familiarity with many subjects and the ability to take up any subject, both of which things a college education teaches, are of the greatest value. Then, too, a college graduate generally has an idea of "what to leave in the ink-bottle," - a point which is coming to be better appreciated...