Word: tilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entries for the potato race and broad sword contest will remain open till seven o'clock tonight...
Appleton Chapel was crowded to its utmost capacity yesterday noon at the funeral of the late Dr. Peabody. As the casket was borne in, preceded by the pallbearers, the audience rose like one, and stood till it was placed beneath the pulpit. After the Reverend Edward H. Hall had read passages from the scripture and offered prayer, Professor F. G. Peabody spoke upon the life of the dead preacher...
...football as follows: "The ball shall be brought out after a touch-down from the place where the player holding the ball is held and not where he crossed the line. The players on the side not having the ball shall not be allowed to touch the ball till it has been put into play." The colleges were represented as follows: Yale, Walter Camp; Wesleyan. F. D. Beattys; Princeton, Alexander Moffatt; and University of Pennsylvania, John D. Bell...
...arrangement of angles we must find the zenith of the sky. A single point however does not help us, and another must be obtained. Looking to the north we can find stars forming circles, and as we go farther north we find the circles growing gradually smaller, till at last they seem almost to stand still. We arrive at the north star but this is not at the pole, for by means of the helioscope one may see many stars nearer to the pole. Farthest north the circles appear to be concentric. We now have the pole and the zenith...
...decision of the judges at the competitive debate of the Union last Friday evening was not rendered till after one o'clock, it was impossible to publish it in Saturday's CRIMSON...