Word: rapids
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Bussey Institute is making rapid strides. Last year its membership amounted to two. This year the Institute started in with a membership of seven, which has since been increased to thirteen...
...present day of rapid change and fience attack upon traditional ideas the man who is to maintain the true faith of Christianity must stand upright and face the storm of criticism. Grander visions than were ever seen by ancient prophets are now being opened up by modern science. Everything has now become wonderful; the insignificant pebble contains a page of the past history of the world written indelibly upon it, and the tiny flower gives up to the student the great truths of the universe. It is just as proper to speak of the word of the Lord as coming...
...present instance. The entering freshman class this year is unprecedentedly large, and the other leading colleges show a similar increase. The numbers of the entering classes and the total number of students in the college have each more than doubled during the past twenty-five years, which is as rapid a ratio of increase as the population of the country shows in the same period, according to the census...
...work of the H. A. A., and the faithful training of the individual athletes. The work of the nine, also, deserves more than passing mention. Their play was an improvement in every way over that at New Haven two weeks ago, and if the advancement continues to be as rapid in the next three weeks we shall expect another victor for Harvard over Yale, and later on the championship...
...reason for this feeling, in that it has seen the men doing unusually hard work this year under unusually capable and energetic coachers. There has been little apparent disposition to inactivity and careless work, such as there was last year. The improvement of late, however, has not been so rapid, and in the points in which the nine is weakest the advancement has been surpassingly and disappointingly slow. The college itself has ill supported the nine by its presence at the games. An opportunity will be afforded Saturday for it to make up its neglect by sending a large...