Word: rating
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...desire to win, the three meetings ought to be reduced to two. With two clubs formed for the special purpose of fostering particular branches of athletics represented at the winter meetings, we should think there ought to be interest enough in college to secure plenty of entries and first rate contests. In the absence of these there should be only genuine entries, and, if necessary, fewer events...
...MILLS, 17 Dunster St.32 Holyoke House will be let, on immediate application to the present occupant, for the rest of this year, at a reduced rate, and with the privilege of reserving the room for next year...
...University of Upsala, Sweden, has appointed a delegate to Northfield, and A. A. Stagg, of Yale, will take charge of the athletics at Northfield and at Lake Geneva, and also in connection with the student gathering at Chautauqua. It is confidently expected that the railroads will grant the reduced rate, on the certificate plan, of one-third fare in returning all who pay full fare in coming as regular delegates to the summer conferences. The arrangements are in charge of C. H. Lee, Y. M. C. A., 40 E. 23d St., New York city...
...Such a subsidy cannot be justified on the ground of restoring by temporary encouragement the prosperity of American shipping; (a) With our tariff on raw materials, our high rate of wages' and our present shipping laws a subsidy for such a purpose would be useless. (b) With the repeal of our shipping laws it would be unnecessary-David A. Wells' in Our Merchant Marine, pp. 136-142; Captain John Codman's Free Ships; Lieut. J. D. J. Kelley, The Question of Ships; the Nation...
...interesting observation was made by assistants of the observatory during the electrical storm of last week. The assistants, who were at their homes in different parts of Cambridge, all heard the clap of thunder only two or three seconds after they saw the flash. As the difference in the rates at which sound and light travel is only five seconds a mile, it is proved that in such electrical storms the rate of sound is much accelerated...