Word: trials
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...less to do with money matters, shows that, although the practical may be unduly set aside here, it will force itself to the front in after life. The University has the power to combine both; and the time has come for it to give the experiment a fair trial. Hitherto it has disregarded the aims of a large number of its students; now it may well take these into consideration in laying out the course to be adopted in the future...
...muddy spot at a critical moment, or a thousand other accidents, would be far more influential in determining the result of a game than they are at present, and therefore the skill on either side would not be fairly tried. The writer would probably discover by a trial that eleven men are barely sufficient to cover a field, and that if each man performs all that is expected of him, the game would be far more injurious in its effects than the writer thinks it is now. As to its being "a rude and brutal" game, it certainly...
...first was the mile-race. R. C. Sturgis, '81, J. A. C. Wright, '81, rode in the first trial-heat; the former winning very prettily...
...second trial-heat, W. D. Swan, '81, beat F. L. Creesy, '82, by about a third of a lap; coming in easily...
...second trial-heat was between J. A. C. Wright, '81, A. J. Abbe, '81, and F. L. Creesy, '82. Wright soon had the track to himself, as his competitors could not keep within their lines...