Word: fashionable
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Travers Island, where the run is to be held today, is the property of the New York Athletic Club, and the course, which is six miles in length, is laid out after the fashion of the English cross-country courses. The English course does away with the great number of jumps necessitated by such a course as that at Morris Park where the meet was held last year...
...insight that in all its manifestations art is one, in its great purpose of revealing new beauty or deeper harmony. The author successfully attempts to reduce the supposed mysteries of art discussion to the basis of everyday intelligence. The book, written as it is in a pleasantly, simple fashion, free from "the jargon of the schools," should prove of great interest to the college...
...subject of your attack, and which you describe as "a few mistaken assumptions and several chains of false reasoning." The Sun may be totally mistaken in what it says concerning the graduate departments, but it seems to have phrased not only in "readable," but also in reasonable fashion some objections to the three years' course which ought to be brought to the attention of every man interested in the welfare of the College...
Davy is also building two new shells for Yale, one of which will be delivered this week. It is sixty feet long, of Spanish cedar, and is rigged after the English fashion, with seats set a little off the keel...
...interest in class meetings. Such meetings well conducted might provide a training in the business of a deliberative assembly which is sadly needed. A presiding officer who knows how business ought to be done, and tries to do it properly, meets anything but encouragement from the unparliamentary fashion in which business is presented. This tendency to let things slide--to rest content with results, and sometimes with no results--has its influence on a great number of our college enterprises. We collect our athletic subscriptions and sell our tickets in a slip-shod fashion. When the grievance becomes intolerable somebody...