Word: counts
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Each of these couples will play every other couple one match, and two couples will go up into the finals. Returns must be in on Thursday, March 24. In case of a general tie the games will count in a series of three games with every other couple...
...decided by the largest total score, shall hold the total strength trophy for the next year. In making up the record for the first fifty, only such tests as have actually been made during the college year, from October first to May first, will be allowed to count in the college total for that year. Each man's record and the apparatus with which it was made must be accessible to the entire college. All the apparatus used in the tests must be examined and tested each year before October first by certain officials...
...laws were changed so that in the future a first place shall count six points; a second place, four points; a third place, two points; and a fourth, one point. In the make-up of the champoinship events a two-mile run was substituted for the one mile...
...Welcome every opportunity for writing." In the discussion of this second precept, the author takes occasion to say that "since frequency of writing has more to do with ease of writing than anything else, I count newspaper men lucky because they are writing all the time, and I do not think so meanly of their product as the present popular disparagement would seem to require. It is hasty work undoubtedly, and bears the marks of haste. But in my judgment, at no period of the English language has there been so high an average of sensible, vivacious and informing sentences...
...Sophomore Debating Club at its meeting last night in Sever 11 debated the question: "Resolved, That a course in physical training with lectures on hygiene be required of Freshmen in Harvard College, to count as a halfcourse towards a degree." The speaking, although spirited, was too largely confined to unimportant details of the question. The members of the club are, however, showing considerable improvement in rebuttal. The debate was awarded to the affirmative...