Word: reasons
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is then, in view of these facts, no good reason why bicycle racing should not hold a place of its own within the universities, having its own grounds and holding separate contests. Such an arrangement would undoubtedly be of great advantage to this sport itself, and would in no way diminish the interest now taken in the intercollegiate athletic games...
...choir sang: "Let not your Heart be troubled," Foster; "I will Lift up Mine Eyes," Clarke-Whitfield; "Come now and let us Reason," Wareing, solo by E. M. Waterhouse...
...inch thick, but even glass as thin as this absorbs so many rays that it presents great obstacles. It has been suggested that an aluminum window be put in the tube and that the photographs be taken with the rays that come through the aluminum, for the reason that the aluminum absorbs hardly any rays while the thinnest glass absorbs an enormous number of them. The objection to the aluminum window is that the atmospheric pressure of 15 pounds to the square inch would break the tube...
...keep in good bodily health. Many students wonder that they do not grow stronger after weeks of hard work in the gymnasium. Some find that instead of making them stronger and better their exercise makes them feel tired and listless in the evenings and unfits them for study. The reason for this is simply that they have not gone about it in the right way; either they have overdone it or they have not taken their exercise systematically. For the great majority of men the best work is regular light exercise on the pulley weights or with the wooden dumb...
...conclusion President Walker said that in his opinion the law, and the law alone, drove silver out. Proper mint regulations might have retained it. The assumption that England's monometallic system made her more prosperous is weak. The reason for the great prosperity of England is to be found rather in her stupendous and never-ceasing exports...