Word: low
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...does not represent the work of many men, but of one. E. S. Ramsdell scored fifteen of the total twenty points, winning first place in the two dashes and in the broad jump, in all of which he made excellent records. Without him Pennsylvania would have fallen almost as low as Princeton, who failed to score a single point. This was unusual, but it was hardly less so to see four firsts taken by men from the smaller colleges which have generally been contented with seconds and thirds. The scores made were as follows: Yale 37, Harvard...
...reason that the sixth settlement was the Troy of Homer, built about 1200 B. C. He bases his opinion on a kind of pottery found in the ruins which was used at that period. The walls of the city at this time and later were built of a low foundation of stone three or four feet high topped by a wall of about fifteen feet made of sun-dried brick. Some authorities believe that a large amount of gold and silver treasure found in the second city show that it was the Troy of Homeric time. But there are many...
Both hurdle races should be fought out by the Harvard and Yale men, though Michigan is said to have a low hurdler who has made fast time. Harvard can hardly hope for quite as good luck in these events as she had at New Haven, as Capt. Lyman fell in the finals of the high and Cady was shut out in the trials by meeting both Bremer and Garcelon...
MESSRS Stone and Kimball announce the appearance of the new edition of Mr. Bliss Carmen's "Low Tide on the Grand Pre," also "Crumbling Idols," by Hamlin Garland, and "The Robbs Island Wreck and Other Stories," by Lyon R. Meekins...
Swami Vivekananda, the Hindoo monk, gave an address last evening in Sever Hall under the auspices of the Harvard Religious Union. The address was very interesting, the clear and eloquent voice of the speaker, and his low, earnest delivery making his words singularly impressive...