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...Hoyt pitched a good game against Andover last year, and Day also proved himself competent to fill the box. Heffelfinger stands a good chance for first base, and Trafford for second. The candidates for the team are playing hand-ball a great deal, but they have not gone into strict training yet. The annual game will be played at Exeter this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Exeter and Andover Nines. | 3/13/1889 | See Source »

...novel and most important feature of the telescope is the mirror. This is polsed or hinged so that it may be set at whatever angle is necessary for reflecting the object of study into the telescope field; but there is this strict limit of the range of observation, that the object must be at or near to meridian. For the contemplated uses of the instrument this limitation is not regarded as a disadvantage, as the meridian position of an object is always best for observation because there the atmospheric obstruction is least. By varying the angle at which the mirror...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A New Telescope. | 3/6/1889 | See Source »

...candidates for the Yale crew is at present only eleven. The unsuccessful candidates have turned their attention to their respective class crews. On Monday the crew took its first meal at the training table, and from now up to the date of the race the men will keep in strict training. Of the eleven candidates only three rowed in last year's boat but Caldwell who is trying, rowed as stroke in '87. The names of the men are given below, the first four of whom have rowed in a 'Varsity boat before. Woodruff, '89, (captain); Hartwell, '89, S.; Brewster...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale University Crew. | 3/6/1889 | See Source »

...athletic outlook at Columbia is good. The candidates for the various teams are in strict training, and great hopes are entertained that the representatives of the blue and white will make a fine record during the coming season...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Athletes at Columbia. | 2/28/1889 | See Source »

...eight feet long and one hundred and one wide. The outer colonnade consisted of seventeen columns on the sides and eight on the ends. These columns were about five and one-half diameters, or thirty-four feet in height. Each was ornamented by twenty flutings, which were of the strict Doric style...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dr. Wheeler's Third Lecture. | 2/26/1889 | See Source »

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