Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...times, men who barely scraped through college got the same diploma as the real students. This was the fiction General Walker doubtless had in mind. Colleges and similar institutions have now raised their standard so that a diploma means something...
Apropos of the purchase of some real estate in Ohio, by the trustees of the University, an exchange has the following: "Is it not a little sad that Harvard should have to buy up the ancient mounds of Ohio to preserve them from destruction...
...them. It was passed because a majority of the members were interested in some specific appropriation which could not be obtained without voting the whole bill. The President refused his signature, and thus the bill was lost. It failed because, while pretending to be for the public good, its real basis was a combination of private and ignoble interests...
...criticise the execrable coaching which the freshmen received in Wednesday's game while on bases. They have much to learn in respect to this important feature of the game. Had the captain and his assistant coaches refrained from their constant stream of meaningless yells and given a little real advice at critical moments, their coaching would have been of some use. Let me give some examples: Three times men were on third base when long flies were hit to the out-field, and in each instance the coach failed to have the runner stand on the bag until the ball...
...Cook being in town yesterday tried the apparatus himself, though, he says the results must not be taken as his stroke for he was not in proper condition to show his real curves. He recommends the machine as a useful aid in coaching. Nevertheless, the University crew has not yet decided to employ it. - Yale News...