Word: third
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...division : Are we justified in pursuing sports which have for their aim or issue the suffering and death of the lower animals? References : Works of Soame Jenyns, Vol. III. p. 186 et seq.; Memoirs of the Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society, Vol. I. p. 341 et seq. Time, third Tuesday...
...third bout between Messrs. Teschemacher and Plummer was then sparred, and was given to the former. The final bout in the sparring between Messrs. Teschemacher and Sharon was postponed till the next meeting...
...interested in boating to the number of three. One of these resigned his office; and another could be induced to retain his only by the most urgent appeals of the assembled multitude. (No nominations were made to fill the vacancy caused by the gentleman who resigned.) The third gentleman was a member of another club, and merely came to look on. Little business having been done, the meeting adjourned at an early hour...
...week the Freshman class held a meeting for the purpose of deciding whether it should row Cornell or not. From the very outset it was evident that there was not a little opposition to the project, and when the final ballot was taken, it was ascertained that about two thirds of the men present favored the plan of rowing Cornell, and one third opposed...
...insignificant fact possible, taking an hour or more for what might be delivered in ten or fifteen minutes, and doing all this in order to give the instructor the impression that the lecturer is working night and day on his course, and deserves his good-will, - deliberate "swiping." The third method is little more than a common school-boy recitation, and needs no comment...