Word: showings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...city at this time and later were built of a low foundation of stone three or four feet high topped by a wall of about fifteen feet made of sun-dried brick. Some authorities believe that a large amount of gold and silver treasure found in the second city show that it was the Troy of Homeric time. But there are many reasons for believing that...
...hundred yards besides the Harvard and Yale men, Dear of Princeton and Ramsdell and Bucholtz of Pennsylvania seem most likely to show up well. Dear won the recent Princeton-Columbia hundred in 10 1-5 seconds. Ramsdell has been running regularly in the same time this spring and Pennsylvania seems fairly confident that he will win. Buchotz was second in the event last year but has been beaten by Ramsdell this spring...
...afternoon in a loosely contested game. The latter were extremely weak, both in batting and fielding. They did not score until the two last innings, and then all their runs were due to inexcusable errors. Ninety-seven, although victorious, played a comparatively poor game. They had few chances to show their ability in fielding on account of the weakness of the Tufts freshmen at the bat, but when an opportunity was offered, their work, with few exceptions, was loose and uncertain. They batted hard, but this was due to a great extent to the ineffectiveness of the Tufts pitcher...
...second place they show that if there should be simply one man to a seat throughout the hall, only about seven hundred and fifty men could then be accommodated. Now there are in Memorial at present over eleven hundred men, and over a hundred names are on the waitinglist. If it is considered also that the number of applicants is sure to grow with every year, it seems highly probable that, a year from this coming fall, the number of men who will desire Memorial Hall board or its equivalent will not be less than fifteen hundred. If then...
There will be published, some time during the coming summer, a volume which will be one of the most important additions ever made to athletic literature. Its purpose will be to show the effects of the game of football on the physical and mental condition of all the men who have played in our colleges since the game was introduced in America...