Word: star
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...crisis in the life of the heroine. Simple and straightforward, "Ruth" is the type of story that the undergraduate reader thoroughly enjoys. Very different from "Ruth," is J. P. Sanborn's frail story, "Conclusions." Like Cyrano de Bergerac, the writer may be said to "set forth to capture a star and then to stop to pick a flower of rhetoric." In style and treatment, "Conclusions" is good and clever. But it has the tone of the over-done, and throughout it there is constant striving for effect. "The Point of View," by J. G. Cole sC., is a pleasant sketch...
...interclub boat race yesterday was won by a scant length by the first Weld crew in 9 minutes and 44 seconds, fairly good time considering that the wind blew across the course, kicking up a choppy sea which bothered the star-board men considerably. The first Newell crew, which was second at the finish, was a length and three-quarters ahead of the second Weld, which in turn led the second Newell by a quarter of a length of open water. The start was not made until one o'clock owing to the difficulty of securing a coxswain...
...appear at the Paris Exposition. One hundred and four square feet of wall space have been reserved in the United States section for the exhibit, which will consist of sixteen transparencies from original plates taken at Cambridge and Arequipa, three wing frames holding about two hundred pictures of star clusters and planets, and twenty wall pictures of work done at observatories. The exhibits are arranged in order to a height of thirteen feet...
...Evening Star, Wagner...
...thereby tied the series. The deciding game will be played in New York next Saturday. Princeton made seven errors to Yale's three, and in all but Kelly's case proved unable to make hits when they were needed. Sullivan of Yale made several star plays...