Word: paces
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...dispute that this is true, but it is equally true of callings in which the direct advantage of a collegiate education is less obvious, as, for example, in architecture. We believe it will be found that the increase in the number of undergraduates is at least keeping pace with the growth of the country in population and in wealth...
...weekly from away out in the far-off West, recently, in the exuberance of its enterprise, published a volume of "College Verses" selected from its own collumns and largely also from those of esteemed contemporaries. Result: a deficit of $130 in the editorial treasury. A sad but timely warning (pace the Advocate and its collection of tearful tributes to the muses) to all who may feel inclined to go and do likewise...
...then by no means an uncommon sight to see the ball flying away in one part of the field, while the forward players were crowded together in a heap hacking at each others' shins like fiends ; it was by no means rare to see a man rushing at full pace with the ball toward the enemy's goal-ling, while a back-player, instead of seizing him below the waist and throwing him, calmly waited for him and hacked him over. Men used to leave a match in those days with the blood streaming through their stockings, and if there...
...English gentlemen has patented an ingenious device, consisting of a bar, by means of which the front wheels of two bicycles may be joined and driven tandem by two riders. The first advantage immediately apparent is that falling over the handles in quite impossible. A greatly increased pace is attainable, and this, with the augmented safety, enables ascents and descents to be taken, which previously caused dismounts to be made. The tandem can be quickly taken to pieces, and the two large wheels transformed into separate machines...
...expected to reach Newburyport in the afternoon, returning the next day. A detachment in charge of Mr. Norton, '85, will accompany the club as far as Salem (20 miles) and return in time for the athletic meeting Saturday afternoon. A second detachment will return from Lynn (13 miles). The pace will be slow and all are requested to take part...