Word: pyramidal
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...take part, especially in the first few events, will be about as follows: Horizontal bar work, parallel bars, tumbling and leaping. During the tumbling various specialties will be introduced. A class in heavy dumbbells will bring out the heavier athletes of the university. After this there will be some pyramid making and then will come, the floor having been cleared by this time, the exhibition of the different organizations. The champion Mott Haven team will show its system of winter training by an exhibition of jumps hitch and kick, putting the shot, pole vault and walk...
...Brown Tuesday, on "What's the American People," strove to make every scholar realize more fully the difference between the sovereign of America-the people-and the aristocratic and oligarchic sovereigns of the older nations. He said that the old simile by which nations have been described-the pyramid-was not applicable to the United States, that this nation was not one of vast lower classes and small numbers of well to do rulers and leaders, but that the truer simile for our social order was a vase "not large at the bottom, rising in a graceful curve till...
...Critic's "Forty Immortals" writes as follows to the Literary World: There are certainly some curious features about the Critic's list of forty American Immortals. One of these is the fact that its pyramid rests, unlike those of Egypt, upon the apex. Mr. Francis Parkman certainly ranks very near the head of our living authors, whatever may be his sins in the way of political pessimism, yet he stands at the very bottom of the Critic's list. It moreover appears that he would not have occupied even this humble position but for the fact that two or three...
...organization and plans of the American Institute of Archaeology, of which Prof. Norton is president, are known to most Harvard men. Besides its valuable and noted excavations at Assos last year, it has been carrying on excavations in Mexico also - at Cholula, into the great pyramid there, and at Mitla. Harvard, Yale, Johns Hopkins University, Cornell, Brown, the College of the City of New York and Amherst have already signified their intention of cooperating in the proposed school at Athens; and it is expected that Columbia and Princeton will soon join the enterprise. If the school is established, as there...