Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first place, there are still a large number of good men from which to choose the eight-men good not only in weight but in intelligence and alacrity. In the second place, the candidates are rapidly rounding into shape physically, and are already beginning to master the Columbia stroke, the slide being the only weak point...
Eight applicants for the 'varsity seats and six for freshman positions have already been dropped. The names of the men who are still retained are: 'Varsity-Captain John H. Prentice, H. E. Pierrepont, J. S. Hall, J. D. Irving, A. R. Campbell, M. McDonald, W. C. Shoup, E. Shepard, F. W. Forsythe, J. McLeod, J. LePrince, A. Lederman, C. Moller, S. Barclay, Orleans Longacre, and Rex Pressprich...
...effect produced by the large number of facts presented is the feeling that it is high time the public again seriously consider the subject of the public school work. There is need of a higher degree of efficiency in teachers in many states, but there is still greater need of a keener appreciation on the part of the public of the teachers' work and the difficulties under which they labor. In general it may be said that every community has the kind of public schools that it deserves to have...
...Macvane then spoke of the knowledge of the subject of the boundary which the maps give. He chose sixty-eight maps out of a much larger number and classified them. There is a difference of opinion in almost all of them which were published before 1814, when the Dutch still had a claim on the territory. About sixteen of the most reliable map makers put the boundary at Cape Nassau. One of our secretaries of state has said that this is a simple matter of historical evidence, but it is not a subject on which conclusive evidence is easy...
...building for architecture will contain lecture rooms, and, what is especially needed, large and well lighted drafting rooms. The engineering building will have first of all ample electrical and mechanical workshops. This is an important need, as students are still obliged to use the workshops of the Cambridge Manual Training School. The new building will also contain lecture rooms and drafting rooms...