Word: vastness
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...forest, three thousand miles long and twenty-five hundred miles wide, situate in the equatorial regions of Africa. In this forest are trees some one hundred and fifty to two hundred feet high, and others even five hundred feet in height. Under these is the vast jungle, impenetrable except as one follows the path of the natives form tribe to tribe...
...private interests in the hands of the government. (2) All the people would be taxed for the benefit of the comparatively small number that would use the telegraph. (a) Probable inefficiency of government management. (b) Clamor for extension of lines to an unprofitable extent. (3) It creates a vast number of federal offices, resulting in an extension of the "Spoils System." (4) It exposes political secrets to the use of the party in power...
...call especial attention to the notice of Dr. Sargent's voluntary class in gymnastics published in another column of this issue. To the vast majortiy of college men who, for one reason or another, cannot indulge in the harder games of football and baseball, this light work in the gymnasium will be of the greatest value. The exercises will gradually increase in difficulty through the two terms so that the work will never lack interest. To the student who exercises to keep his body in condition while his mind is growing, practice in the gymnasium is very necessary. Dr. Sargent...
...Harvard nine, to be victorious, must in some way strengthen themselves in this particular weakness. Yale refuses to play us a third game and so there is but one thing to do and that is to beat her both here and in New Haven. But to do this a vast improvement must be made and right soon at that. The students have confidence in their representatives, above all in their Captain, and they look to both to see that they do justice to the University and to themselves...
...victory even more gratifying. Apparently the scheme of these intercollegiate contests is becoming more and more popular and we look to the day when they will interest a still larger portion of the University. Certainly the custom of rendering a decision on the debate proved to be a vast improvement over the old plan. It lends excitement for the moment and increases the satisfaction afterward, at least for those who win. And yet even to the losers themselves there is that satisfaction which comes from the assurance of a well argued question and a victory narrowly missed...