Word: tape
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...part, on political questions, - live questions, in which all have some concern; hence the debates have an interest and excitement unknown with us. Upstairs is the library, which is now very large, and much more used by students than the University or College libraries, where there is much red-tape, while at the Union each member is his own librarian, and the system works well. Here also are the smoking-room, for cards, c the novel-room, where one finds all the latest novels, and comfortable seats in which to read them; and one or two other rooms...
...Executive Committee have given abundant evidence of their ability to wrestle with difficult problems in mental arithmetic. For instance, given three judges and two ends of a piece of tape, problem, to place the judges so that the two ends of the tape shall be supported. The Committee have solved this by a master stroke, by placing two judges at one end of the tape, and the third at the other; but it seems to us that they have left out of consideration the feelings of the third judge. Isolated at one end of the tape, he is obliged...
...yards Dash. - Entries were: Messrs. Cowdin, '79, E. J. Wendell, '82, R. Trimble, '80, F. Warren, '82, Donaldson, '79. All came to the scratch, and got off well on the report of the pistol. Wendell took the lead, the others following close upon him, and breasted the tape first, Trimble two yards behind, Cowdin and Warren tied for third, Donaldson last. Time...
...FINISH.A tape held by the judges shall be stretched across the track at the finish four feet above the ground. This tape must be breasted...
JUDGES AT THE FINISH.Two shall stand at one end of the tape, and the third at the other. One shall take the winner, another the second man, and the other the third man; they shall also note the distances between the first three as they finish...