Word: regarding
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...first inventions in this line, and describes the gradual development of the present bicycle from the old velocipede. Two chapters are devoted to a full description of the manufacture and mechanics of the machine, and another to suggestions for learners. Advice about riding and racing, and information in regard to the laws and courtesies of the road, take up the next chapters. A list of thirty-nine routes, most of them in the vicinity of Boston, is given, and tables of the fastest time on record for all distances. Chapter eleven contains a model constitution for a bicycle club...
...hear reports to the effect that certain persons were giving large odds against Mr. Wendell, - in some cases as large as seven to one; and, indeed, this circumstance gave rise to such general comment that it reached the ears of a number of people who are rarely informed in regard to sporting matters. It seemed a pitch of folly which could not be explained...
...another column will be found an article showing the cause and nature of the point recently raised by the Harvard Club in regard to a decision of the Board of Overseers. That the board has a right to exclude from its membership all graduates who reside outside of Massachusetts, is a conclusion which the Harvard Club does not accept, and whether it ought to have such a right is the point proposed to be decided. No one, of course, questions the diligence and fidelity of the present board, and it is only to promote the true interests of the University...
...officers resulted as follows: President, W. G. Twombley, '79; Captain, M. Tilden, '81; Sub-Captain, C. A. Parker, '80; Secretary and Treasurer, R. C. Sturgis, '81. The officers were empowered to choose an Executive Committee of five, who are to have full power to settle all matters in regard to the club. This Committee is also to draw up a Constitution and present it at a meeting to be held some time next week...
PROFESSOR NORTON and Mr. Moore are engaged, with Mr. Ruskin's approval, in preparing a compendium of "Modern Painters," intended to contain the substance of its teaching in regard to the principles and practice of art. It is to be considered as the final and authoritative form in which Mr. Ruskin desires the essential doctrines of his book preserved, as he does not intend to reprint in full the "Modern Painters...