Word: shifting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...difficulty should arise effort would be made to settle it agreeably to both parties. Now, however, the Yale captain declares that the question was one for the convention to settle and should have been brought up before it when it was met. This sudden and decidedly questionable shift on the part of the Yale captain is not without its meaning. It means that in his point of view he is powerless to change the schedule arranged by the convention, and that therefore the Harvard-Yale game must take place in New York. As Harvard cannot play in New York, Yale...
...strongest man and won in 8m, 36s. Wood showed the best form, being a good second. The half-mile run was a good race. G. L. Batchelder, G. W. Priest and R. M. White were the starters. The first quarter was rather slow, each man trying to shift the pace making onto the other. Bachelder won in 2m, 7 4-5s, with Priest second. The running broad jump was between J. P. Lee and W. N. Duane. Lee won at 19 ft., 3 1-2 in. The mile run was a walk-over for A, M. White...
...annual migration of authors to cooler climes has begun. Some merely shift their homes in this country, but the majority are going abroad...
...look ahead to the great change which is to be effected. At present there is a great gap between school and university which the young man has to jump over as best he can. His academical training ceases long before it is nearly sufficient; he is left to make shift for himself in a sea of different studies, and there is no denying that the average man gets hopelessly lost in it, and, as Mr. Brearley points out "educational systems are made for men in general, not for mediocre men merely, but certainly not for prodigies or exceptional cases...
...seriously impair its usefulness * * * * * But perhaps the most noticeable change is that which has taken place in the time and attention devoted to the physical training of college students. It is, so to speak, but few years since the undergraduates at most of our colleges were left to shift for themselves. Now every facility is offered them for exercise of the body, as well as of the mind * * * * from Harvard, with its magnificent Hemenway Gymnasium, down to the smallest "fresh water" college, we note a steady improvement in this all-important branch of culture. Evidently we are soon to realize...