Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hangs. Doesn't row evenly. Does't keep firm hold with outside hand. Must keep right shoulder down...
...postal and one for the clerical labor involved. As things are now, the library seems inclined to speculate on the misfortunes of those who use it. A third cause of complaint is the new rule which interdicts the drawing of reserved books by proxy. Every student has a right to draw books, and if he chooses to transfer his right to another, signing a written order to that effect, he should be allowed to do so. The library belongs to the students, they are charged on their term bills with part of the expense of its maintenance, and its rules...
...back with a heave. The knot is either one or two wraps, though the single wrap is much quicker to use. The double wrap is used when one team desires to hold what it has got, and does wish the knot to slip. The knot is made with the right hand and held in place by the left; if made too far from the body it is of no advantage, as all the slack is lost on the next heave. When one anchor heaves, the other goes back on his toes, bracing his heels together, and then comes forward...
...years of Harvard and of Yale, and shows the same improvement and growth. Although still known as a "college," the excellent schools of law, engineering, and medicine which Columbia possesses will soon compel her title to be changed to "university," a name to which it certainly has an undoubted right. Therefore in view of the gratifying progress which this rival 'university' of the future has made in the past few years, no pains ought to be spared by the able committee into whose hands the management of the celebration has been entrusted to make the coming birthday memorable...
...this is that "good school methods of teaching the sciences have not yet been elaborated and demonstrated, and it is the first duty of university departments of science to remove at least this obstacle to the introduction of science into schools. ... Science can never be put on the right footing at the university, so long as it is practically excluded from secondary schools, or is admitted only to be taught in a positively harmful way." This brings to the front as important amatter as has lately been considered in the development of collegiate study, and young men may well consider...