Word: parallels
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Both of the skating rinks on Soldiers Field are now practically finished, and can be made ready for use at a day's notice. The rinks this year are placed parallel to the park-way, and are both 180 feet long by 80 feet wide, with rounded corners. A pipe will be brought over from the locker-building, to supply the city water which will be used entirely for flooding the rinks. The fence around the hockey rink will be about two feet above the ice, since it was found that last year's fence was too high. There will...
...innovation of a machine to develop the line defense was brought into the preliminary practice. It consisted of a long padded board mounted on rollers, running parallel to the ground about three feet above it. The men were lined up against it and at the snap of the ball lunged at it and pushed it ahead of them. If one side of the line was slow the machine slewed around and showed where the weakness was. After some work of this sort the linemen were given some hard defensive practice, while the backs were put through the plays. The first...
...year 1872. Started as an English college, with all or many of the English traditions, there had been from time to time considerable innovations. In 1820 the first degree of Bachelor of Law was conferred by Harvard, but as yet there was nothing at all parallel to the German "Faculty of Philosophy." In 1872 the Harvard Graduate School was created to fill this need...
...Harrison (16 Howard) referring to California which had been ceded to the United States as has Porto Rico. From this decision it is clear that California had not in consequence of the treaty become a part of the United States to which the statutes applied. This case is parallel to Porto Rico...
...Fuente of Columbia, won the all-around champion with 52 points, and E. L. Eliason of Yale, was second with 50. Harvard's six points were made by E. B. Blakely '02, who won the tumbling contest, and J. P. Jones '02, who was third best on the parallel bars. The other members of the Harvard team were unplaced...