Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...expected to have the building ready for the use of the Annex by the fall of 1889, by which time the instructors will have been selected, and the students admitted...
Pennsylvania won the toss. The ball was rushed down to Harvard's twenty-five-yard line, when Harvard got it. Brilliant rushes by Sears, Harding and Porter carried it down into Pennsylvania's territory. Sears then made the first touchdown. Time ten minutes. No goal. Score 4 to 0. Harvard got the ball on twenty-five-yard line. Porter made a splendid rush and Sears ran through and made the second touchdown. Time fifteen minutes. No goal. Score 8 to 0. Pennsylvania then gained twenty yards. Sears made another fine rush and third touchdown. Time 20 minutes. No goal. Score...
...then punted well by Sears and kept in the centre of the field. Punting by both sides. Rushes by Lee, Harding and Davis. Sears made a beautiful run and was downed on Pennsylvania's ten-yard line. Porter then ran round and made eighth touchdown for Harvard. No goal. Time thirty minutes. Score 38 to 0. Pennsylvania then forced the ball to Harvard's ten-yard line, but lost it on a fumble. Sears now ran the whole length of the field, throwing off the whole Pennsylvania team, and making the ninth touchdown for Harvard. Goal. Time thirty-five minutes...
...recent fire in Stoughton Hall shows the necessity of being fully prepared beforehand for any accident of that kind. The fire was not due to the carelessness of anybody, but originated from a hot coal falling out of the grate upon the carpeted floor. This is the third time within the past ten years that Stoughton has been set on fire from the same cause. Had the fire remained much longer undiscovered, the damage done would have been infinitely greater and probably the occupants of all the rooms in that building would have been burned...
...chronicled, in writing his own epitaph, beside the immortal fact of his having been the author of the Declaration of Independence. The fact that he was twice President of the United States Jefferson thought less worthy of record. Although prostrated by the war, the university has since that time received over $700,000 in legacies and gifts, exclusive of its fixed endowments. It has no President but its affairs are administered by the chairman of the faculty, who is selected each year, from among the professors by the Board of Visitors...