Word: space
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Princeton's exhibit at the World's Fair is destined to be among the most interesting sent by the colleges. The committee in charge desire especially to call attention to Princeton's part in the History of the Country and in the History of Education. The space allotted, two thousand square feet, will be entirely occupied...
Holmes Field presented an unusual sight yesterday afternoon. Almost the whole Field is covered with ice and on the northern half is a smooth space large enough for several games of polo besides leaving room for a good many other skaters. On the running track the ice is smooth and hard all the way around except near the willows...
Owing to lack of space, there are many cases of casts which cannot yet be exhibited, but the collection as it stands is, very interesting. It contains Babylonian-Assyrian seals and clay tablets, coins, photographs, manuscripts, and a selection of casts from the finest of the Semitic monuments in the various European museums. Of the manuscripts, only a few are exhibited in the railing case. They are Arabic, Syriac, and Hebrew, and among the latter area roll of the Law and rolls of the Prophets. Some of them are from Arabia and contain a translation into Arabic in addition...
...wedge plays" without leaving a loop-hole for evading the rule. The rule we should provide would combine with the present five yards and three downs rule and stipulate that in perhaps two downs or fairs, if the ball be not advanced ten yards, it must traverse a space of twenty yards across the field either in the hands of a player or not. The above rule would probably insure the more frequent interchange of the ball, a desired feature of our present game...
Twenty-seven men are practising for the first baseball nine at the University of Chicago. A space for practising on grounders has been left in the gymnasium unfloored. Stagg bats down grounders to the candidates in succession. The players are taught the utmost quickness both in stopping the ball and in recovery, then accurately and swiftly to return it underhanded and overhanded. Much attention is given to base-sliding, head foremost as well as feet foremost, and to sliding around and in front of the base. A cage, consisting of cord netting suspended from the ceiling and enclosing a space...