Word: slower
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...personal liberty" to poison one's self by slow degrees recognized by either the law of the nation or public opinion? Is a man at liberty to use solutions of Paris green, arsenic, cyanide of potassium and other poisons, as beverages? Why should attractive solutions of alcohol, a slower but no less genuine poison than those mentioned, be sold and quaffed and dignified by custom and tradition as promoting good fellowship? Why in the name of common sense, should we not drink laudanum, "blue vitriol," dilute sulphuric acid and other such beverages if we insist on having wine, beer, whiskey...
...officer inexperienced in the new warfare, could best devise. The more progressive a college, the more efficient has become its military system, while neighboring institutions remain behind. Nothing has yet been done to eliminate the consequent irregularity of training, and unfortunate competition between institutions, or to give slower universities the benefit of methods successfully introduced in the more energetic. It is the unification of military education, or at least the spreading of systems that have proved most successful, that should be the aim of the coming conference...
...University squad increased in size to nearly twenty making a total number of 40 runners reporting to Coach Farrell in addition to a few weight men. The candidates who had been out before were sent for three fairly brisk laps on the cinder track and then four miles at slower rate around the Soldiers' Field fence. All the new men merely jogged a short distance around the Field...
...vault. In the relay race the team won the intercollegiate championship against Holy Cross, Princeton, Cornell, and Pennsylvania in the fast time of three minutes 26 and 3-5 seconds. This time is within one and one-fifth seconds of the world's record, and is one-fifth second slower than the time made by the team in the Meadowbrook games last year. In two other races this winter the Tiger quartet has won out over the University, but in the race on Saturday the team beat Holy Cross, who forced Princeton to take third place. C. S. Babbitt...
...short relay team was given two lap time trials. H. W. Minot '17 and W. Willcox, Jr., '17 made very good time and Captain E. A. Teschner '17 was only a fraction of a second slower. No one else ran a particularly striking race, although nearly all the times were fair...