Word: shutting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard and Yale men, though Michigan is said to have a low hurdler who has made fast time. Harvard can hardly hope for quite as good luck in these events as she had at New Haven, as Capt. Lyman fell in the finals of the high and Cady was shut out in the trials by meeting both Bremer and Garcelon...
...annual championship games of the Athletic Association on Holmes Field this afternoon will give the first real chance to judge of the full strength of this year's Mott Haven team, as the class games last Monday shut out several good athletes. If the weather is favorable it would not be surprising to see one or two of the old records go. The men will not compete again in scratch events before the dual contest with Yale on May 12. The games today will start promptly...
...Harvard led by a score of 8 to 3. In this inning Williams, by good batting, through an error of judgment by Highlands, and Hayes's muff of a fly, scored 7 runs. Harvard tied the score in the sixth, but Williams scored once in the seventh. Harvard was shut out in this inning but evened matters in the eighth. Neither side scored in the ninth, but in the tenth Williams got two runs on errors and an opportune hit of Hammatt...
...follow truth makes the worth of a man. For it is not through the possession of truth but through the search after it that his powers expand, and in that alone consists his ever-growing perfection. Possession makes us easy, indolent, and proud. If God held all truth shut in his right hand, and in his left the single, inward, pure longing for truth, though with the condition of perpetually erring; I should bow humbly on his left hand and say: "Father, give! pure truth is for Thee alone...
...considerable interest to the University. If the plan is carried into effect, the row of large spruce trees, which border the observatory grounds on the Concord avenue side, must be cut down. These trees are greatly valued by the observatory, not only for their beauty, but also because they shut off the grounds so completely from the street, and at night prevent the glare of the electric lights from interfering with the use of the telescopes...