Word: limits
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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Mile run-Lloyd, Y. A. A., scratch; C. H. Pierce, 60 yards (limit), A. M. White, 10 yards, A. Blake, 40 yards...
...agricultural book" showed much botanical knowledge and often curious mottoes were written on the bark of different trees. His lawns and gardens were his especial pleasure and he often said "Americans should pay especial attention to their lawns, for, as the country is new. There need be no limit to their extent." Jefferson's own lawns were beautifully situated for they extended west many acres in front of the house, and the view to the west commanded the country for one hundred miles as far as the Alleganies. It was Jefferson's idea to make himself perfectly independent, a true...
...numerous that every hour feels its burden; compulsory church and chapel, compulsory gymnasium work, and a fixed allowance of absences from recitations, keeps the hand of the governing body continually before the students. The result is only partially successful; men feel in duty bound to take the full limit of allowed absences from recitations, and are continually striving to invent means to avoid their other compulsory tasks, a course which tends towards anything but broad thought and careful work...
...membership limit of 1200 of the Boston Athletic association was reached about one year ago and since that time seventy-two persons have been admitted whose names have been on the waiting list, in preference to others on account of their athletic abilities. These names include those of many Harvard men, most of whom have recently graduated. The list of those now in Harvard together with recent graduates with the events in which they take part is as follows...
Feather weight sparring, time limit...