Word: rating
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...meeting interesting, but present indications point to the contrary. Unless a sudden and decided change takes place in the intentions of the athletic men, the offer of handicaps would induce a great number of men to enter the meetings who have so present intentions of doing so. At any rate the plan would be well worth the consideration of the H. A. A. officers...
...agreeable spectacle to watch the delusive exultation of Yale at rolling up every year an enormous increase by percentage, Harvard meanwhile quietly outstripping her in actual increase. The explanation of such a process, however, would belong to the higher mathematics. And in point of fact it is the rate of gain which throws light upon the future. The number of men from the south and west rose from 44 in Harvard '91, to 49 in Harvard, '92; and at Yale in the same classes from 45 to 54. The difference between a gain...
There are 850 quarts of milk used every day at Memorial, and about 500 pounds of beef are bought whenever they have beef for dinner. Two barrels of flour are consumed in a day. All victuals left over are sold early in the morning to the poor at the rate of ten cents a basket...
...Their impersonations, Booth as Shylock and Modjeska as Portia were full of life and vividness throughout. Miss Craigen as Jessica put considerable earnestness into her part, and showed good capabilities. The play as a whole was well received, and, although some of the members of the company were second rate, the incomparable work of Booth and Modjeska more than made up for minor individual faults. Unwarrantable liberty had been taken with the original text in the adaptation for the stage...
...they first get on the water and, it is hoped, will save the time that has formerly been wasted in putting snap and vim into the crew's work. These improvements will enable the crew to row from sixteen to eighteen strokes per minute right away, whereas formerly this rate was never attained until the latter part of February...