Word: points
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...kick-off at the twenty-five yard line. The ball was given to Morse, who carried it well down to the middle of the field, and then passed it to Scott, who carried it past everybody, right down to eighty-six's line, making the first and only point for eighty-nine. This rush was by all odds the most interesting feature of the game, and it was well worth everyone's while to have stood around shivering the whole afternoon to have seen that one play. As no one had expected that the freshmen would score at all, there...
...formed by a looped wire terminating in an indicative point, upon which rests a heavy weight, the whole being suspended from a firm support. This, however, has not the advantage of such great delicacy as the mercury cup and is used in the more transient stations of the various surveys...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON. - In this university of specialists and specialized research, it seems as if one branch of study was becoming restricted beyond the point of advisability. Reference is made to the theme work of the present sophomore class. Perhaps there has been enough written pro and con on the English courses and the methods in use, but objection can still be made in one direction at least. Criticism figures first and foremost in almost every part of required work in sophomore English. The second and third themes are in themselves supposed to be criticisms, and after these each student...
There is another point in regard to this especial system which is open to objection, namely, that the basis upon which are founded twelve separate criticisms by each student, must be the work of different members of his own class. In very truth, if the admission of foreign commodities on an equal footing with home products is the only way to reserve a healthy state of our commercial markets, how will this restrictive high protection act upon the intellectual wealth of those under its action? Shall we find each individual offering to his fellow classmen, products equal to those found...
...impetus to the study of political economy at Harvard. The use of diagrams plays an important part in his plan. Diagrams are invaluable to a thorough comprehension of many principles of political economy, but it is a question if the writer has not laid too much stress upon this point. In some parts of the subject diagrams can be used freely, but sometimes a diagram may be as misleading as a false analogy, and therefore extreme caution is needed...