Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Tuesday the Shooting Club finished the series of matches that has been running for the last three weeks. The result in match A was quite exciting, four men, Oakes, '87, Mead, '87, Greene, '89, Grew, '89, tying for first place. In the shoot off, Mead won. The following are the prize-winners...
...papers, and so there can be no fixed policy in the conduct of athletics or anything else. One man builds his plan out and disappears; another succeeds him and grafts his own ideal on to his predecessor's relicts, so to say, and, to mix metaphors, the result is a very patchwork of policy - likest a crazy-quilt, Queen Anne's cottage, than any other product of the same human mind. Hence, too, the impossibility of the strictest economy. The bucket changes hands so often and so rapidly, and each carries it so differently from anybody else, that some water...
...Club, reading-room, smoking-room, place of rendezvous and restaurant, if you will and can; but also turn it to some more solid account by making it a place where matters of college interest may be discussed: a not only talked about, uselessly and with no power of direct result, but in such manner that the opinions prevailing have some concrete effect easiest obtained by giving the debaters votes. Quod bene vertat...
...first order of business was the formation of a constitution for the new League. The old constitution of the Intercollegiate Base-ball Association was taken as a model but it was changed so essentially and completely that the result bears but little resemblance to it. The changes made, and the important provisions inserted, will be found in the following extracts from the new constitution, as finally adopted...
...publication. Lyell and Hooker agreed to publish it only on condition that he (Darwin) would at the same time give to the public the memoirs that they had for so many years endeavored to persuade him to publish, and which they had perused as far back as 1844. The result was, that the essays of Darwin and Wallace were presented, under one title, before the Linnean Society on June...