Word: soft
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rise of the industry were described, from the primitive method to the present blast furnace, each receiving a careful description. The pudding process which was formerly a very important industry, requiring over 2,000,000 tons of ore in 1882, is rapidly passing away and being superseded by soft steel, which the lecturer described at some length...
...field used for foot-ball in autumn and by the freshman nine in spring, smaller fields of poor land devoted to lacrosse and cricket respectively and the remaining nooks and corners taken up by a varying number of tennis courts. Most of the courts were poor, owing to the soft and rolling nature of the land. Even then there was much overlapping of the lacrosse, tennis and cricket grounds. In addition to the courts on these two fields there were less than a dozen others, most of them near the Agassiz Museum...
...whole of Jarvis Field is being rolled by the large horse-roller while the ground is still soft...
Students are requested not to play on the tennis courts on Jarvis Field without the express permission of owners of the court, until after the recess, as the ground is too soft for tennis playing without injury to the courts...
...thoughts. The next selection, Entr'acte, from Reinecke's Manfred, was admirably in the spirit of the whole programme. While thoroughly German in character, of the modern school, it was beautiful and impressive, without being difficult to grasp. The orchestra played it in a masterly manner, attaining a wonderfully soft pianissimo at the close...