Word: signal
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...slow hunt" the pack shall be under the direction of the master of the hunt, who shall also act as pacemaker. During the chase, each member of the pack must keep within calling distance of the master until the latter shall give the signal for the "break"; they may then run as they please to the appointed place of finish...
...John Hopkins have been elected assistant professors of Greek and Latin. Prof. B. I. Wheeler succeeds Prof. Flagg in the Greek department and Profs. Hewett and Dudley resume their work after a year's absence in Europe. The central station of the New York department of the United States Signal Service is to be located at Cornell. About $250,000 will be spent on the new library, which will be one of the largest and best equipped in the country, having room for 400,000 volumes. It is expected that the class of '92 will have more than four hundred...
...soon as the shells are in position as above, one long whistle will be blown, as a preparatory signal...
Thirty seconds after this signal three short sharp whistles will signify "are you ready...
Should no hand be seen the final starting signal (a gun shot) will be given, and may come at any moment after the three whistles...