Word: branch
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Considerable influence has recently been brought to bear upon the Baseball Association, with the result that the association has practically decided to join the Columbia College Athletic Union. The union will rescind the obnoxious clause in its constitution that no person shall be allowed to represent Columbia in any branch of athletics unless he is a member of the union. The association will be given an equal representation with rowing and track athletics. As soon as the association becomes a part of the union a series of inter-class games will be arranged...
During the Mohammedan government at Bagdad, science made great headway. The Arabians were essentially a scientific people. They invented a new branch of mathematics, algebra, and were skilful in chemistry and astronomy. Constantinople became the greatest seat of learning in the world. With the fall of the Turkish Empire came the Renaissance, and Greek learning was spread throughout Europe. It was accompanied by a decay in morals which pervaded the whole social organization. This explains the hostile attitude which the church took toward the New Learning...
Captain Thorne has called out all the new candidates for the positions of half and fullback of next year's Yale eleven, who are not at present taking part in any other branch of athletics. The work, which is to consist of kicking and catching, will begin today and continue for about three weeks. If the number of men warrant it a contest will be held at the end and four prizes will be given. The centre rushes and quarterbacks, who have been working for two weeks past, will be kept a while longer to give them an opportunity...
...bequeathed by the late Judge Billings for the establishment of a fund to endow a professorship in English literature. As the CRIMSON editorially remarked last week, both the Faculty and students are united in their efforts to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education...
...provide such training as may prevent its recurrence. In these efforts both faculty and students are united. The students are anxious to remove what they now begin to consider the disgrace of repeated defeats, while the Faculty seek to free Yale from the possible reproach of neglecting an important branch of college education. Their latest move has been a particular request to the corporation, leading to the appointment of a new professor to the chair of Rhetoric which has been vacant for ten years. The students show their interest, not only by a great increase in the number who take...