Word: gradually
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...residence and a fee of five dollars. There existed among the colleges at that time a great deal of hard feeling which amounted to a kind of "armed neutrality." To the growth of the graduate schools, and to the intermingling there of men from different colleges, he ascribed the gradual dying out of that former unfriendly criticism. The old feeling has been supplanted by a rivalry that is most friendly...
...tried. The coaches have spent all their time on the new candidates in order to cut down the squad of inexperienced players as soon as possible. There will be no reduction of the squad, however, before the end of the week. Last year's policy of careful training, the gradual formation of the University eleven, and of straight, hard and simple football will be followed again this year...
...taken by the officers of the University in making the organization of a student battalion as effective as possible. We are sure that the members of the squads intend to cooperate with them in this, and permit no individual sloth or carelessness to delay the formation of companies and gradual perfection of battallion drill...
...stratum about the Fijis is generally limestone and the height at which the coral formation begins, generally about forty feet below the surface, may have been reached by a gradual upward growth of the substratum, as well as by subsidence from a higher altitude. In either case the present theory is that it is an independent growth. However, more than anything else the results of my trip have been to make me realize that the whole theory of coral formation is still very uncertain. A few interesting discoveries about the Fijis have shown that the very old theory that atolls...
...remembered in considering the future of the association that solid progress must come slowly. There is to be no sudden change in athletic affairs. Such an institution will grow into usefulness by a gradual process...