Word: setting
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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Above his head was set...
...lights are now in the Yard. The suggestion is made that another set of lamps be put in to enable the pedestrians to see the present lights...
...that its constitution, as it stood, practically declared that unless a man believe the peculiar doctrines laid down in it, he cannot be expected to do the work of a good man, and is, therefore, unfit to be a member of the society. A movement was therefore set on foot to amend the constitution so as to admit men into the society whose character could not be impeached, whose membership the society would have reason to be proud of, but who have the misfortune to differ in opinion with the majority of the members about the truth of certain unessential...
...instructor must also be admitted; but that the whole is due to him is not true. Last year a professor who taught four courses, each taken by some 50 or 60 men, repeatedly extended invitations to his pupils to call on him. For this purpose he set apart one evening a week. What was the result? On the first evening exactly three came, the next two, and so on in arithmetical progression. Another instructor has even gone to the trouble of sending formal invitation cards to his pupils, with the same result. Several other cases could be cited to support...
...rushers being over 170 pounds. To support this line of forwards, they had Camp, Watson, and Badger, well known as fine half-backs. Our men, on the other hand, were lighter, and rather weak in their half-backs, the latter fact being especially noticeable in the game. The time set for beginning was 2.30; and, a little later than that, notwithstanding a pouring rain, play was called, Yale winning the toss, and taking the wind. Kent kicked off for Harvard, and for a minute or two we kept close to Yale's goal. But the ball was soon returned...