Word: reaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Although in the main points we agree entirely with the conclusions reached by Dr. Sargent, and do not question in the least the important part the gymnasium must play in a properly regulated course of physical education, still we feel that too little importance is ascribed to the legitimate field-sports, such as foot-ball and base-ball. Both of these games supply a practice that can never be gained by any system of work in the gymnasium. And, besides, open air life is most beneficial. Although it is undoubtedly true that the spirit of rivalry does enter...
...Newberry, in a New York Tribune interview, expresses himself warmly in favor of co-education in Columbia College. "For fifteen years" he says, "a few women have attended the lectures of Professor Rood and myself, and to reach our lecture rooms were compelled to traverse halls and stairways where they encountered a large number of students, and yet they were always treated with perfect respect, and their presence in the lecture rooms made the classes more quiet and attentive because it put them on their good behavior...
...bucket for little Elsie alone. If we went up together we should have to sit opposite one another on the edge of the bucket with the rope between, like the two sides of a pair of scales; and I feared that Elsie might get cramped and frightened before we reached the top. Besides, I noticed that about six inches above the bucket the rope had been worn half through by the spades. The "pard," however, insisted that it was quite comfortable, that the rope was strong enough yet to hold a dozen; and he enforced his remarks with...
...should be able to wind it around me, and thus free my arms from the terrible strain; but I found that with Elsie hanging around my neck, I could not do it. There was nothing left, then, but to try to hold on by the rope until we should reach...
...Cambridge city government have ordered that "the expediency of having the permanent men of the fire department suitably uniformed" be considered. New uniforms will doubtless enable the firemen to reach a fire in Harvard square from ten to fifteen minutes sooner than they...