Word: standing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...35ft. 3in. and Chamberlain's 37ft. Clark's best was 35ft. 11in. and Chamberlain's 37ft. 10 1 2in., thus giving him the event and breaking the inter-collegiate record of 37ft. 10in. Mr. R. D. Smith explained that probably this record would not be allowed to stand as the rules of the Inter-collegiate Association demand a solid iron shot instead of the leather covered substitute used...
...compromise of 1850 necessary for the salvation of the Union? 24. Has the House of Representatives the full power intended by the Constitution over revenue bills? 25. Is the existence of parties necessary to good government? 26. Was it right for the voters of Middlesex to stand by Wilkes...
...numbers are in any way a proof of progress, Harvard has certainly advanced. And we think that the day, if not now present, is surely not far distant when she will in every way be fitted to stand as the typical American university; when at Harvard can be found the most earnest students from all parts of our land...
...hard seats, is no place for such lectures as Judge Holmes and Dr. Brooks have given. If none but Cambridge people, for whom the lectures are not especially intended, were turned away, Sever might do very well. But as long as students of the university have either to stand, - if they can find room, - or to go away disappointed, Sever is signally deficient. The interests of the students and the highest value of the lectures demand that hereafter Sanders be opened...
...soon after it was built a great number of revolutionary muskets and cannon were stood there. After the war of the rebellion these old arms were sold at wholesale to private parties, who retailed them off at a good profit as relics of the revolution. The cannon, which now stand on the common, were presented by the state to the city of Cambridge at the time of this clearing out of old stock...