Word: current
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...report of the Committee on Physical Training, Athletic Sports, and Sanitary Condition of Buildings, to the Board of Overseers, which appears in the current number of the Graduates' Magazine, contains some important suggestions in regard to physical training. "A large proportion of students not being sufficiently strong and active to play in the athletic teams find no inducement to improve their physical condition. Thus a very large class take no regular exercise and it is by no means uncommon to find men, often students of gret promise, who leave college as much weakened in body as they are strengthened...
...Current and back numbers of the standard periodicals were furnished last year by members of the University and it is hoped that this year they will prove as generous...
...into position. Crew No. 4, J. F. Perkins '99, captain had the course nearest the wall; crew No. 3, H. M. Adams '98, captain, was next; crew No. 2, D. M. Goodrich '98, captain, followed, and crew No.4, Higginson 1900, captain, had the outside course where the current ran strongest, but where the sea was especially rough. The course lay from the Union Boat House, straightaway up stream a distance of a mile, finishing two hundred yards this side of Harvard Bridge...
Best general references: Gentleman's Mag., Feb. 1897; Atlantic Mon., Mar. '97; Current History, 3d and 4th quarter of '96; 1st quar. '97; Rev. of Revs., Feb., March, Apr., '97; Rev. of Revs., Feb., March, Apr., '97; Senate Debates, Jan. 18-22, '98; Public Opin., XXII; Forum...
Melvil Dewey, Secretary of the University of New York, representing the American Library Association, of which Dr. Winsor was the first president (1876) and president again for the current year...