Word: openingly
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...Beacon, published by students of Boston University, inquires: "What did President Eliot mean by saying, I am glad that Boston University is open to both sexes? Does he or does he not believe in co-education? In his speech Tuesday evening he was careful to commit himself on neither side, and seemed greatly relieved when he had finished...
Fortunately the tower of our new law building, on which is to be our observatory, was open on Dec. 6th, when Venus took her skip across the sun's face. The winding staircases leading to the top were crowded all day long with students desirous of observing the transit through Prof. Lee's equatorial refractor. Your correspondent ruined his constitution by a climb along with the rest of the eager star-gazers. He was exceedingly disappointed with his observations and obtained about as much satisfaction as he would had he gazed through a sheet of smoked...
...term "block" ball is restricted so that no block can occur except from a batted or thrown ball, no pitched or passed ball being open to a "block." In other words, a ball delivered by the pitcher to the bat cannot become a blocked ball if stopped by an outsider...
...subjected the coach and the other members of the crew to serious inconvenience, and would be taken into account in the final selection. In regard to the Christmas vacation, he required strict adherence to the pledge of total abstinence from certain indulgences, and hoped that regular exercise in the open air would be taken by each one, of an amount sufficient to bring him back at the beginning of next term physically well-fitted to endure the severe work expected...
...them our sincere congratulations for such victories. We do not wish to charge Yale falsely, and are ready to hear what she has to say, but she must show stronger proofs than she has yet produced, to disprove the evidence that we possess. She must, at least, make an open denial of this system of umpire-play, by which referees have been systematically bulldozed. We do not believe she will deny it. Even professionals will expel from the B. B. league a catcher who deceives the umpire by snapping his fingers to imitate a foul tip. But our brothers...