Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball teams to reply to them. These replies we print in another column, and we think they speak for themselves. In this matter, it seems to us that the News has forgotten one of the most important essentials to all editorial writing,-the solid basis of fact, and we doubt very much if that paper represents in any way the managers of the Yale teams in question...
...game was to be expected, as such a selection of picked men, all old players, playing well, have an advantage over any single club which is likely to have some raw material at the beginning of the season. Their opponents complimented our team on their play, and with good solid work said they ought to do well in their coming college games...
...CHALLENGE CUP.While the audience was taking a short rest between two of the events, Mr. Coolidge stepped forward holding in his hand the large solid silver Challenge Cup of the Inter-collegiate Athletic Association, He said that it was won last year for the fourth time in succession by Harvard's representatives at New York. Those who won the prizes at the '84 meeting last May, were: W. H. Goodwin, '84, 1-4 mile run, 51 4-5 sec.; W. H. Goodwin, '84, 1-2 mile run, 2 min. 2 sec.; G. B. Morrison, '83, 1 mile...
...senior crew commenced "solid" work in the gymnasium yesterday with...
About twenty years ago petrography or lithology, the study of the structure of rocks, was added to our list of sciences. Harvard, almost alone among American colleges, has paid attention to this science. As if by magic, one versed in this wonderful science can look through solid rock and tell what lies hidden far within. The tool of the petrographist is a polarizing microscope, that is, an ordinary compound microscope in which two Nicol's prisms of Iceland spar are placed at a certain distance apart...