Word: fractional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...breaking the amateur record of 1 minute, 55 2-5 seconds held by Myers. On June 27th, Dohm ran in the N. Y. A. A. quarter mile handicap, coming in second, seven seconds behind the winner who had six yards start. Dohm's time was 48 seconds and a fraction. On August 19, at Asbury Park, Dohm took second plac in a hundred yards dash; and at Philadelphia he finished third in a halfmile open handicap. In the games for the eastern championship, held at Traver's Island, Sept. 14th, Dohm won the quarter in 51 2-5 seconds...
...quiet, staid Advocate has blossomed out with a crimson title-page, and the innovation is a very happy one. The lines around the pages and between the columns have been taken out, and the articles end across the page instead of filling up one whole column and a fraction of the other. The verses are honored with the full width of the page. All these changes have a very pleasing effect, tending to clear the Advocate from those traces of amateurishness which are the concomitants of the average college paper. The editors of the Advocate are to be congratulated...
...amateurs in the country. Sherrill, '89, who is now the champion 100-yards runner of the country, will run in these races, as will also Hinckley, '88, who has a record of a quarter-mile in 51 3-4 seconds; Bradner, who is able to run within a fraction of a second of the record in the half-mile run has retired from the track permanently. It is reported that Ludington, '87, who holds the inter collegiate championship in the hurdle race, will take a post-graduate course here this year, and will run at Mott Haven next spring. Consider...
...occupy time which could better be devoted to the study of other subjects; or at least, to a greater degree of practice in simple operations. Who of us has not seen, in the hands of children of 11, 12 and 13 years of age, examples in "compound and complex fractions" which were more difficult than any operation which any bank cashier in the city of Boston has occasion to perform, in the course of his business, from January to December? The most jagged fractions, such as would hardly ever be found in actual business operations...
...hear much of the Harvard indifference; it could hardly be that no such carelessness should exist among us, for before a man gets the control of any department of interest - athletics, literature or anything else - a large fraction of his college life has passed. Hence, a quick succession of captains in the crews and nines, of editors-in-chief in the papers, and so there can be no fixed policy in the conduct of athletics or anything else. One man builds his plan out and disappears; another succeeds him and grafts his own ideal on to his predecessor's relicts...