Word: solider
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Each school will be allowed to enter three men, in each event and the meeting will be open to all members of schools who are under twenty-one. A solid silver shield is offered for the school scoring the most points, which shall be held each year by the school making the best record. At the end of nine years, the school which has won it the greatest number of times will be presented with the shield. There will be a team race between Hopkinson and Roxbury Latin, and the other events (all scratch) will be as follows: Forty yards...
...Club last evening, Professor Von Jagemann and Dr. Richards talked in an informal and thoroughly delightful manner of the customs of German universities, as they appeal to American interest. There is no comparison possible between German universities and American colleges. The German boy gains his training in nine years solid work in the gymnasium, as it is called. When he enters a university he leaves general education behind and devotes himself to one particular object...
...history of the Institute began as all great works began. It began with a few buildings and a little money, until now it is on a solid basis and doing a magnificent work...
...freshman crew is now getting down to solid work; the large number of candidates has been cut down one half, and those who are left can now be more advantageously handled. As far as can be judged from the weights of the men the candidates are very promising and the outlook for a strong freshman crew is very bright. But as yet few, if any of the freshmen who have been playing football have come out to try for the crew. From the football men especially, a large quantity of good material is always expected. The slight disadvantage at which...
...first number of the Monthly is filled with good reading, solid and serious, on the whole. It opens with a history of Six Years of Voluntary Chapel,' which is as interesting as it is instructive. Professor Peabody explains very clearly the reasons which led to the abolishment of compulsory chapel and for the undoubted success of the present system. The article is one which it will be well for every man in college to read for his own satisfaction and edification...