Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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INSTRUCTOR in Optics: "Yes, gentlemen, you may experience this curious phenomenon of seeing double by gazing fixedly at any object for a short time. I myself have frequently observed double lampposts." Class woods up. (Fact...
...matched with Mr. Evert Wendell of Harvard. Mr. Lee, I believe, was the amateur, or at all events the college, champion of America in short-distance running. Mr. Wendell's record was very unusual. It is said that in his practice runs he had done his distances in shorter time than any on record, and in the Athletic Sports which were held in Gilmore's Garden toward the end of March, he had run a race with Mr. Lee so close that at the end no one but the judges was prepared to say which was the winner...
...referring to this time-honored college custom I said that a great responsibility rested upon popular men, inasmuch as many of their admirers would imitate their actions; and, to use a strong illustration, I said that if Swellington got drunk, Gosling, even though he did not like the taste of liquor, would follow his friend's example. This is the statement that "D" challenges. I do not say that Gosling does drink to excess, but I say that he will if Swellington does, and I draw the conclusion from Gosling's conduct in other matters. When "D" says that...
THOSE who attended the performances of Modjeska when she was here, a short time ago, will doubtless remember reading on their programmes an account of the palace car in which this gifted artist and her company travel. The most glowing descriptions of the Arabian Nights pale before it. Even the Prince of the Black Isles, who had so many charming young ladies devoted to him, never enjoyed the luxury of hanging up his clothes on a silver-plated hook, nor are we told that Aladdin's famous lamp was nickel-plated. The movements of genius are at all times interesting...
...would also be very convenient at the four-to-five recitations in winter. Some who now find it hard to get to a nine-o'clock recitation might be accommodated with a secretary that would change into a bed, and this would assure their being on the spot in time the next morning. A silver-plated bath-tub would al o be extremely agreeable...