Word: tending
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Farrar's views in regard to the (socalled) English system of classical education, I trust that, with your usual courtesy and fairness and desire to furnish your readers correct information on the subjects discussed in your paper, you will permit me to offer a few brief remarks, that may tend to modify largely the conclusions that might be drawn from the extract you have given...
...recent editorial in the Advocate on handicap races perhaps does not touch on the main advantage of handicap races :-First, that it improves the pace, second, that it gives a chance to everybody, and third, that it makes and improves every sort of athlete. That handicap races tend to improve the pace and increase record-breaking can not be doubted. Over and over again have we seen our champion runners leaving their opponents in the rear, so much that there was no interest in the race. Now if these second rate opponents had been given starts, there would have been...
...would make a porous covering through which any water could easily pass to the foundation and be drained off. But instead of this being done a layer of small rocks and gravel was laid, and this covered with a layer of ashes and fine gravel. Of course this would tend to form a concrete and become very hard and would be in no respect equal to the former as a running track. It was all due to a misunderstanding, for the substances which the contractors put on are worth several times that which the contract specified. Accordingly...
...wish very much that this state of things existed here or in England. But it does not exist. Moreover, it is passing away more or less rapidly in all countries in which it does exist. All civilized societies in our day tend to the commercial type, and more and more adopt the commercial standards and tests. Consequently we see no chance of introducing it here, and, though it is everybody's duty not to drift idly with the current, it is sheer waste of strength to try and row dead against it. The people, or perhaps we should rather...
...regret very much," Governor Butler is reported as saying, "this political action on the part of the college, because I fear it may tend to impair its usefulness, for it is quite possible that the people of the Commonwealth may hereafter remember it to the disadvantage of the college and come to the conclusion to divorce the college and the State as our fathers divorced the church and State, and may inquire if there is any reason why the property of that institution shall be exempted from taxataxation, which is so burdensome upon us, while they use the alms...