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...requisite materials for food. The root increases in thickness, the branches contunue their growth until this intruder actually crowds out of existence the tree upon which it first began to grow. These roots, thus growing in the air, attain sometimes great size; logs from twenty to fifty feet in length and four feet square are obtained in large quantities. The magnificent specimens obtained by the University are respectively four and four and one-half feet in diameter...
...first place, this is absolutely no time for considering the length of a man's service of the nine, (except as that may have shown his fitness) or his class, or his society connections or anything of the sort; fitness and individual character and the ability to see clearly the conditions and to adapt himself to them, these and these only should have any weight. And fitness in this case means a clear head, a steady purpose and the quality of natural leadership. It does not imply the greatest actual ability as a baseball player any more than generalship...
...location and length the track will be great improvement over that of former years. The location of the old track made it dangerous both for the runners and for the passers...
...decided by the character of his daily recitations and by short examinations during the term. By means of abolishing the final examinations the fall term will, after this year, be continued until December 24, and the winter term will commence in January, which means a material decrease in the length of the Christmas vacation. The Thanksgiving recess of four days is also abolished, and a new regulation as to the time for beginning the college year cuts a week from the summer vacation...
...bearing of an aristocrat, with the convictions of a radical. He had, besides, a literary man's memory,- he could illustrate anything with an appropriate anecdote. No man can retain such power as he possessed for any length of time without being materially changed; he himself said that his life was not wholesome, as he had a constant craving for opposition. Like most of the prohibitionists, he had difficulty in keeping his desire for opposition and controversy out of lectures when there was no call for them. He had difficulty in drawing the line in after life between the reformer...