Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Owing to the lack of profit made on "blue books," and to reduce the number of instances in which time has to be taken to count out and make change for less than a dozen, the prices are advanced to 5 cents each for the 3 hour books, and 3 cents for the 1-hour. Packages of 1 dozen books will remain at the old price, 35 cents and 24 cents...
...much better satisfied with the new system of voluntary recitations than with the old system of compulsory attendance. Under the old system an average of 75 per cent was seldom maintained for a month. Now an average of 90 per cent is often sustained for months at a time, with classes containing 250 members...
...program of the Symphony Concert tonight will be as follows: Mennelssohn. Overture, Fingal's Cave: otherwise known as "The Hebrides." Arthur Whiting. Concerto for pianoforte, op. 6 in D. Minor. Dvorak. Slavonic dances from the third and fourth series (first time). Rubenstein. Symphony in C, op. 42 (Ocean...
...once around the lower basin, about 1 1-6 miles, and bicycles must weigh over 34 lbs. The entrance fee of one dollar each will go towards buying the prizes for first and second place. Besides these prizes a medal will be given to the man making the best time from the scratch. Entries must be sent on or before Nov. 22 to Charles P. Daniels, Boston, Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium...
...fully comprehended and appreciated. We feel confident in saying that no other college in this country has ever attempted a work of such magnitude and importance in astronomy as the professors who are about to start south have undertaken. They will be gone two years, devoting much of their time to the study of the condition of the heavens in South America. Such an undertaking certainly deserves the best of success, and we trust it may achieve all the good results it hopes to bring about...