Word: power
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Professor Peabody spoke in conclusion of Dr. Peabody's connection with the College. What most men found laborious he found pleasant. His labor was ceaseless; his activity extraordinary. But what endeared him to the students and made his life a power in the students lives was his power of appreciativeness...
...hard catch with the shoulders-one which was apparently so hard that the crew could not carry the stroke through. Although Mr. Mumford still insists on a hard catch, it is one that can be carried way through by the men. The result of thus applying the power all through is that the stroke is longer-the proportion of time that the oars are in the water to the length of time they are out is greater. The development of the leg drive was commenced by Mr. Watson, but has been carried to a much greater point by Mr. Mumford...
Hollister at two, weighs 172 pounds. His chief fault is that he is slow in applying his power at the catch...
President Gilman of Johns Hopkins University has been called to the position of superintendent of the public schools of New York City. The trustees, however, at a meeting held Saturday, decided to do all in their power to retain President Gilman...
...known of. It was said that the Greek poets set their heroes in a wonder land, and men claimed there was no evidence that Troy ever existed. The earlier chapters of the city were lost, not only in history, but in myth. Mycenx's kings were great in power and wealth and any one could have been Homer's Agamemnon. Indeed modern scholars doubted the site assigned to Troy. In northwestern Asia Minor was a hill on which Illium, a city which asserted itself to be Homer's City, must have stood; but no ruins were there visible except those...