Word: side
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...been found necessary to remodel the dark room of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. The sun, beating on the south side of the building, raises the temperature of the dark room to such an extent as to cause a variation in the length of light waves, thus interfering with experiments...
Cornell expects to build a boat house on the Groton side of the Thames river at New London, about half-way be the Yale and Harvard quarters. They propose to arrange annual contests on the Thames...
...varsity grounds are being greatly enlarged. The fence on the south side of the field is moved out some thirty or forty feet, and the hollow between the tracks and the north fence is being filled in. When the improvements are completed the ground will be large enough for two football fields or two diamonds...
DEAR SIRS-I think that the graduate who complains in the CRIMSON of the poor place reserved for coaches in the Yale-Harvard game is all wrong. He says that the coaches should have one side of the field instead of an end. But this would be manifestly unfair. A coach holds about twelve men on an average, but the space taken up by one would accommodate six rows of eight men each. or 48 men. Supposing that twenty coaches-a small number were present, two hundred and forty men would occupy the space which might have held nine hundred...
...ball back near the middle of the field. Crosby fell on the ball. It was passed to White but Crane tackled him before he got started. The ball went to Wesleyan on a misplay of Dean's. The full-backs kicked back and forth for several minutes, neither side making any gain. At last Harvard adopted rushing tactics again, and White, Stickney, Lee and Blanchard took the play well down towards Wesleyan's line. Lee made a superb rush to the five yard line. No gain was made on the first down, but on the second, the ball was given...