Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Manchester, England, Recently, a tennis match was played between Heathcote, the English amateur champion and Thomas Pettitt, the American champion, with the following result: First set, Heathcote, six games to four. Second set. Pettitt six games to three. Third set, Pettitt six games to none. Fourth set, Pettitt, six games to two; thus the American champion was the victor by three sets...
...large class of the men, that the faculty are directly responsible for much of the trouble. What is their attitude ? They say, "You shall not make a bonfire," and by a system of espionage, well calculated to arouse the opposition of the fellows, try to prevent any demonstrations. The result is a long and tedious delay to the inevitable celebrations. The proctors on one side and the fellows on the other, spend hour after hour in trying to outwit each other. Numbers in the end always prevail, and festivities commence at about 11 or 12 o'clock. The noise...
...provoking interference was shown, the band was not allowed to enter the yard, the students were ordered about like schoolboys, and a threatening and ill timed speech was made by one of the younger instructors. A feeling of resistance, a desire to smash something was the natural and inevitable result, and I can but think it fortunate that so little trouble came of it. I believe that on such occasions, happening so rarely as they do, very great liberty can be safely given to the students. Certainly, such features as the brass band and the giee club ought...
...censured) have gonr through a college course uninjured morally, and greatly benefited intellectually. The unexpected success in America of the vauious college annexes ought aid the thinkers in England in solving the difficult problem and show them that here, at least, popular prejudice has been changed by the successful result of an experiment. That woman ought not to receive the same salary as men is evident, because they are personally weaker and cannot endure what men can. Yet, to say that a women ought not to get a degree, simply because she is a woman, even when she passes...
...aware that it may be urged that such establishments may engender cliquishmess, narrowness, the substitution of a feeling of attachment to the house and its inmates for devotion to the interests of the entire university and of good fellowship with all of it students. Such has not been the result thus far. Several fraternities now here are occupying houses of their own, and nothing has been more pleasing to me in my relations with students here than attendance of receptions of these various fraternities in which guests were invited from the whole body of students without regard to the badge...