Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...photography the lecturer had obtained a series of views of a moving horse, which gave correctly every attitude, and which have settled conclusively many vexed questions. It was clearly shown that in walking a horse touches the ground with his left lateral hind foot, left lateral fore foot, right lateral hind foot and right lateral fore foot, in the order named. Two and sometimes three feet in the walk and amble are always on the ground. In the trot, rack, canter and run the horse in certain positions does not touch the ground at all. Especially is this case...
...must apply their minds under pressure to new matter at short notice and for this you are trained, in meeting your tasks day by day. It would doubtless be much pleasanter to both students and instructors, were it differently arranged. The American college is a social institution. It is right that it should be so. It gives a charm and usefulness. You make here a new home, new friends, new social and personal life and lay foundations for friendships in after life ; friendships which if you ask old graduates they will tell you are the best they have ever formed...
...delivery that he did not know when to quit, and after the Harvard men had noticed that the ball always turned about a foot outward after leaving the pitcher's hand, they made their calculations and hammered at it accordingly. The game, up to the fifth inning, was right in the hands of Princeton's catcher, who captured the men one after another as they struck out, but when Harvard began to bat, the prospects changed at once, and Princeton lost by three clear runs. Mann had only one curve, and he did not even vary it by straight balls...
...explain. Yyng, of the New York Stock Exchange nine, or the Staten Island nine, as they now call it, is more ready with a theory, which he probably developed at Harvard while taking Ernst's hot balls from the bat. "The out curve," said he, "or the one from right to left, is the only curve that can be made, for the reason that a man can't throw a ball swiftly when he holds it in position to do anything else. To get an out-curve the ball must be held in such a way that its axis...
...should therefore think it quite within the province of the college, either by means of any general lectures or printed suggestions on the subject, or through the detailed suggestions of individual instructors in the lecture-room, to endeavor to aid students in acquiring right methods of study...