Word: ten
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...HAVEN, CONN., April 4. - The annual Ten Eyck prize speaking, or the Junior Exhibition, as it is called at Yale, took place this afternoon. There were eight contestants. The first prize of $60 was awarded to Anson Phelps Stokes, Jr., of New York, chairman of the Yale News...
...track athletic team will go into quarters at the mansion on the grounds at William's Bridge on May 1. The mansion will be furnished and put into condition early next month. As there are but ten rooms it will be impossible to find accommodations for more than twenty...
...future, though, in the steady decrease in the ages of successive freshman classes. Since 1889 this decrease has been only once interrupted, when in both 1892 and 1893 the average age was eighteen years and eleven months. This year again it has gone down to eighteen years and ten months. The fall is very slow but it is probably sure. With it may be expected a constant improvement in the mental ability of the student; for the lessening age will be significant not of haste in the preparatory, but of intelligent thoroughness in the elementary, school. In some future time...
...Thursday all of the candidates for the low hurdles will run the distance, and from these, ten will be selected for further trial...
...crew was again changed. Bullard and Fennessy both rowed in the stern of the boat, Bullard at stroke and Fennessy at number seven. Watriss is out of town for a few days. His place was taken temporarily by Lewis. The number of candidates has been further reduced to ten. The following is the order: Stroke, Bullard; 7, Fennessy; 6, Hollister; 5, Stevenson; 4, Lewis; 3, Jennings; 2, Shepard; bow, Damon. This is one of a number of changes in the crew made during the past week in the effort to find quickly and finally the most effective combination...