Word: stood
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Cambridge stood at the head of the list of 45 cities in the union in which trustworthy statistics were taken. Its death rate was only 17.5 in 1000 while the death rate in the whole state of Massachusetts was about 20 in 1000. The death rate in the state between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five is only eight or nine in one thousand. In the district of Cambridge in which the college buildings are situated, the death rate is only about nine in one thousand for all ages, no higher than the death rate for the most favored...
...admirable idea. There is always a certain class, however, who, although willing to give such a plan their nominal support, are sure to stop their interest there. It is to such men as these that we make our appeal. We have as a college stood by our eleven in a manner admirable. But just now the really trying time begins. We are sure to meet in the next few weeks a deal of criticism of our recent withdrawal, and however much we may feel this criticism to be unjust, we cannot simply pass it by as such. We must rather...
...downs and Yale gained twenty-five yards on Harvard's off-side play and rushes by Gill, Heffel-finger, McClung and Morrison. McClung ran around the end and almost scored, but was pushed outside by Dean. Before the ball could be put in play time was called. The score stood as before, 6-0 in favor of Yale...
...Harvard was re-admitted to the association. Princeton won from Harvard 12 to 0; Yale vs. Harvard 29 to 4. The Yale-Princeton game was not finished on account of darkness. The score stood, Yale 4, Princeton 0. Championship not awarded...
Asst. Professor Francke delivered, yesterday afternoon, the third of the series of introductory lectures on German literature. His subject was "Luther as a Writer." The history of the German people in the sixteenth century, said Professor Francke, was wonderfully strange and sad. At the beginning of the century Germany stood at the head of the movement for truth and light; at the end, the Catholic church was there, in the very home of Protestantism, slowly and surely gaining ground. The chief reason for this was that the question of reforming the church was becoming political. When Luther left the Diet...