Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...this year. Mullen has been imported only at a great cost. Mayelon is a Schnectady fireman. Layler played on the Gloversville nine with Pendergrass last year. He was afraid that one of the foul tips would break the 'dormitory. winder.' McElwain is a post-graduate. All the rest of the nine are claimed to be college...
...plan of giving second prizes at the remaining winter meetings in any events where more than four men contest will, we hope, induce a still larger number of men to enter. Where, as is often the case, the probable winner is known beforehand, an inducement for which the rest of the men may strive will be likely to bring about the desired end. The officers of the H. A. A. are certainly doing all in their power to make the remaining meetings the best we have yet seen...
...part of this is to be attributed to the general lavishness prevailing outside. The tone of American life is not simple, and comparing the general scale of living, inside and outside, now and twenty years ago, we doubt if the undergraduates have done more than keep up with the rest of us. The only people whom we discipline into plain living and high thinking are those engaged in the work of teaching; we make that calling as unattractive to men of ability as possible. An able professor, with a family, screwed down to $4,000 or $5,000 a year...
...freshman examination in Chemistry, the men have been allotted as follows: Abbot to Endicott, Mass 1; Faulkner to Kuhn, Mass 3; Litchfield to Lumner, Sever 37; Talbot to Linkeisen, U. E. R.; conditioned men, U. E. R. Special students alphabetically with the rest...
...returned, the people at the hotel from which he started would not believe he had made the ascent. The names of his companions and his own name, however, were left at the summit, so that the ascent would be proved by a party which ascended immediately after him. The rest of the lecture was spent in giving views of a tour on the Italian side of Monte Rosa, through the Alps to Milan, which lies at the foot of the Italian Alps. The only objectionable feature of the lecture was the extreme closeness of the hall...