Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sides and 26 at the highest point of the trusses, on which the roof is supported, or a mean height of 21 feet. There is afforded, therefore, an inclosed space of nearly 5,400 cubic yards. One end of the cage is doubly boarded to furnish a solid smooth surface for hand-ball practice. On the inside the ceiling is formed by wire netting, which extends the whole length of the building, completely protects the windows and rafters, and prevents the sudden rebounding of batted balls, while the entire sides and one end are protected by cord netting. Thus...
...indicates roughly that Greek is losing a little ground, that Latin and French are holding their own, and that German, history, mathematics and the sciences are gaining ground. The graduate department has been growing rapidly and increase in the amount of tuition fees is our evidence of its solid growth. In 1872-73 the amount received from tuition fees of graduates was $493-34, while in 1886-87 the amount...
...earnest thought, results that should go far towards refuting the charge of superficialness and triviality which has been made-sometimes with justice-against the modern literary productions at Harvard. To any one taking up this number of the Monthly it must occur that here is something worth reading-solid, good, careful work, and interesting matter. The editors are to be congratulated upon beginning the new year so well...
...getting its men together. The classes then form in opposing columns at some little distance from each other. Each man locks arms with the man on either side and places his hands on the shoulders of the man in front of him. In this way they form a solid phalanx, four abreast and from twenty to thirty deep. The freshmen are helped to form by the juniors and many of the latter aid in filling up the rear. When the lines are fully formed, they advance slowly step by step until within a few paces of one another, when...
...best elements of the old and new methods of historical training have been happily united at Yale. The general plan of European history specializing as it does upon modern Europe and the Constitutional history of England, impresses a student of methods in teaching as one of the most sensible, solid, and practically useful now in operation...