Word: second
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...close of second half-hour, Harvard three goals and three touch-downs; Yale nothing...
ANOTHER important scientific discovery, or, perhaps better, invention, has just been made by Professor Wolcott Gibbs, of our University, and is known as the Ammonic Nitrate Battery. This is the second improved species of battery that Professor Gibbs has invented, the first being the Bichromate Potash Battery, which has already taken the place of the old Bunsen Battery on the Western Union Telegraph lines. These batteries are in form like the Bunsen Battery; the Bichromate Battery, though improving little on the Bunsen in cleanness, yet gets rid of the fumes which make the latter battery so disagreeable...
...first event was a one-mile run, in which A. L. Lowell, '77, and C. James, '79, were the only starters. James took the lead, and kept in advance until the end of the second quarter, when he was passed by Lowell, who won the race in 5 min. 2 1/2 sec. Mr. Lowell then mounted the judges' stand, and, after receiving his prize, - a magnificent silver tankard, - leaped from the stand to the ground, and disappeared in the crowd amidst loud shouts of applause. The next event was a one-mile walk between Green, '76; Taylor, '77; and Legate...
...club is pre-eminently superior to the rest, and that the division of the buildings was made with judgment. It is a curious fact that of the two clubs which stand first on the list - Holworthy and Holyoke - the first has a smaller number of members and the second a larger number than any of the other clubs, - proving that success does not depend on numbers. The fact that one club has not yet won a race seems at first to indicate that the composition of the club is in some way inferior to that of the others, but this...
...spring of '75, 14 min. 59 1/2 sec., and this fall 15 min. 8 1/2 sec., - showing a difference of nearly a minute and a half between the time of the first and last race. Of the four clubs all but one has furnished a winning second crew; Holworthy taking the first race, Weld the second, and Holyoke the third...