Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...poorness of the grounds and the lack of college support, both by players and by money. The material from which the team had to be chosen was fresh, as few men play cricket before coming to college, so that great practice was necessary to bring them into shape. Many good players enter college next year. With enough funds the club can then go ahead and form an eleven which will do the college credit. But the one necessary thing is support from the college, and especially money...
...very noticeable that the Yale News is at present pursuing the policy - which is the policy of their athletic organization - of using undue persuasion in the shape of lavish compliment, offers of high advancement, donations of old shells and so forth, to make proselytes for their athletic teams among the various schools. It is a very well known fact that the St. Paul's club and other clubs at Yale are deliberately formed for this purpose, and that graduates of the different schools are sent to make converts of the most valuable athletes left in them. Now, although Yale...
...oval skull is usually considered the ideal in shape. A sharp skull usually marks a low mental activity, although this is not always the case. Intellect depends only in part on the size of the brain. Portions of the brain have been lost without loss of activity. The "American Crowbar Case" is the most famous, when a bar 1 1-2 inches in diameter, and 3 feet long was shot in blasting through a man's head, entering in the jaw and coming out in the forward part of the head. This man recovered. Experiments on animals show that cutting...
...school question enters politics, it will most probably be in the shape of a proposal to divide the fund collected for public instruction so as to support parochial schools. To grant a part of the public money to one denomination would entitle all denominations to a share. And sects like the Episcopal church, which talks of building schools of its own, would accept this. But the plan would be greatly to the detriment of the common school system...
...work for this body to do, and there is no better time for such work than the coming week. Before the next meeting of the Conference is called, the drafting or framing committee should be selected, so that subjects may be referred to it, and cast into proper shape for discussion. These subjects should then be sent to the different members of the Conference, so that each one may be able to have an independent view on what is to be brought up for discussion. With these preliminaries we feel sure that the meetings may be of increasing benefit...