Word: problems
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every fair ball in succession. This rule has never yet been tried. In regard to the throwing, the past season's experience has shown that it is almost impossible to prevent the high delivery, especially in view of the prevalence of the mania for a swift delivery. The pitching problem is one not easy to solve, but it is about time that the batsman should not be placed at such a disadvantage...
...fourths vote is required for withdrawing consent to the agreement. The details of the plan have been elaborated with admirable clearness, and the experiment will begin under the most favorable conditions. A conservative college like Bowdoin in trying such an experiment contributes importantly to a solution of the difficult problem of college discipline, a government which ought to have in it a 'sweet reasonableness...
...they have succeeded in opening a new matrimonial market for the superfluous woman of New England. The Massachusetts Society for the Promotion of the Higher Education of Women, under whose protecting wings the Annex has flourished to its present stage of success, has done more to solve the perplexing problem of super-abundant women and decreasing marriages that is distressing social philosophers, than all the theorizing and sad predictions of which the talking folk have been guilty.-[Globe...
...graduate student at New Haven he took a walk one morning with Prof. Newton, a man who lives in the world of mathematics and simply exists in the common world of ordinary things. Prof. Newton, as is his habit, started off on the discussion of an abstruse problem. As the Professor went deeper and deeper. Mr. Phelps' mind wandered further and further from what was being said. At last Mr. Phelps' attention was called back to his companion by the Professor's winding up with, "Which, you see, gives us 'X.'" "Does it?" asked Mr. Phelps, thinking that in politeness...
Simkins, to Miss Innocent, at the spring sports: "Look, they have put Smith's time down at 8.55; I guess they want to keep his record dark." Miss Innocent: "Why, how can they do that if they write it down in white? [The problem is still unsolved.] - [Chaff...