Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...time of Mohammed, Semitic thought, as an active motive power in literature had almost disappeared from the world. There existed, however, among the roving tribes of Arabia, a lyric poetry of great excellence. War, love and hunting furnished the theme but there was no study of nature for its own sake. Sconery was introduced only as an appendage to human action. The elegance of diction and the happy flow of language showed the work of many generations of poets. There was, however, no unity of conception, and the poems were merely a string of aneedotes without beginning...
There will be a slow hare and hounds run this afternoon, starting from Matthews at 3.15. The first two hounds in last time will be the hares...
...other place-but insists that the Harvard team must meet the Yale eleven at New York on Thanksgiving or the game will be forfeited to Yale. The Yale management has taken this stand with the full knowledge that the Harvard team will be unable to play at the time and place scheduled on account of the interdict of the Athletic Committee; and either vainly hopes (which is not likely) that this interdict will be withdrawn, or else boldly declares the intention of the Yale eleven to struggle for the championship by whatever means it may. honorable or otherwise...
...account of an accident to the mails between New York and Boston Saturday night, the report of the Harvard-Princeton game by the foot-ball correspondent of the CRIMSON did not reach Cambridge in time for publication in Monday's paper. Although the report published was the best that could be had under the circumstances, there are many inaccurate statements made in it. It would be difficult to correct these sufficiently without giving another long detailed account of the game; which the editors think hardly worth while, as the subject is now four days old. But to correct the entirely...
...side the wall of the new recitation building is ten feet above ground. The corner-stone will be laid on the north-west corner next to South College; there will be no public ceremonies at the time, and all the documents deposited will relate only to college matters. President Dwight and Professor A. S. Wheeler have charge of the matter...