Word: sixths
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Assistant Professor Von Jageman will give the sixth lecture in the German Literature course tomorrow afternoon. His subject will be "The Romantic School and the German Philology...
...regular weekly vesper service was held in Appleton Chapel yesterday afternoon. Rev. F. G. Peabody led in the devotional part of the service, after which the choir sang Brown's anthem, "Thy sun shall no more go down." Rev. William Lawrence read the portion of the sixth chapter of John describing the miracle of the feeding of the five thousand, and made it the text of his remarks. He said that in this passage we have in miniature the relation of Christ, the church and the world. In the replies of the two disciples to Christ's question...
...investigation Professor Shaler has found that many laboring men and women exceed two hundred thousand hours of hard work in a life-time while the average time of life spent by our most laborious literary men has not exceeded thirty thousand hours or about one sixth that of the laboring man with only as much brain as may guide his movements. Inasmuch, therefore, as intellectual labor his been found more wearying than that required of the ordinary man, the conclusion has been drawn that not more than nine months of the year should be devoted to school work...
...furnish two foot ball fields, and give an excellent chance for base ball. This fall the donor has built a track which, as far as advantages go, will put Williams on an equal footing with her rivals. The track is oblong in shape, fifteen feet wide and a sixth of a mile in circuit. It is very carefully underdrained and is composed of pin gravel covered to a depth of nine inches with cinders. The track is so arranged that the finish of the races will be opposite the grand stand which is also just back of the catcher...
...sixth hare and hounds run took place Wednesday afternoon. The hares A, H. Williams, '91, and T. G. King, '91. started from the gymnasium at 3.28, and were followed nine minutes later by the hounds, with W. Alexander L. S. for master. The track was laid through Norton's woods and across the railroad to Somerville, over the hills to the Lowell railroad, along the track to the Belmont marshes, and through them to Fresh pond and Mt. Auburn, where the break was made opposite the cemetery. The hares got in at 4.34 1-2, and it was twenty minutes...