Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college library is open Sunday afternoons from 1 p. m. to sun-down. During the last year it was open 37 Sundays, and 2,894 persons took advantage of the right of using the reserved books in Gore Hall on Sundays...
...students at the college proper, at the Divinity, Law and Scientific Schools, 1191 availed themselves of their right of taking out books-an increase of 80 students and 152 users. The percentage of users among the undergraduates has risen a great deal during recent years, as the following tables show...
...decision of the supreme court of New York holds that the Polo Grounds are the property of the city, and declares that the park commissioners have a right to destroy the fences as soon as they please. Owing to legal technicalities, however, nothing is likely to be done for at least a year...
About twenty-five candidates for the university nine attended the meeting in Captain Willard's room last evening. Of last year's nine only four are now in college. They are Willard, first base; Henshaw, catcher; Howland, right field, and Quackenboss, third base. It is doubtful whether Quackenboss will play this year. The other candidates and the positions for which they are trying are as follows: Pitcher, Luce, '91, McLeod, '90, and Hawley, '89; catcher, Hale, L. S. S., Bell, '92; second base, Mumford, '90, Evans, sp., McCoy, '90, Wood, sp., Talbot, '89, Babbitt, '91; third base, Barney, '90; shortstop...
...team and for the substitutes. The request is a modest enough one even if they did not have a cent for buying them. When, however, they have $280, half of which they volunteer to give to the crew, it is contemptibly mean for any one to question their right to what they ask. The excuse crew men offer for the position they have taken is that every cent that can be obtained is needed by the crew. It is true enough that the crew will need a great deal of money, but it does not signify that on this account...