Word: thus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...score the game without having the slightest conveniences for their work. We hope that the management will not allow this state of affairs to continue another year. One at least, if not two, additional tables should be furnished for the use of the scorers. We speak of the matter thus early in order that plenty of time may be had for making the needed improvements...
...Union boat club have organized an eight which practice daily in the old Union boat club barge. There are thus seven eight oared crews in daily practice on the river. All the college crews have been at training tables since the April vacation...
...treaty is disgraceful to our diplomacy, because: (a) the "three-mile limit" in the case of bays is made to be five miles; (b) we are forbidden to enter eleven bays each more than ten miles in width; (c) the municipal dominion of Canada over these great bays is thus increased; (d) our fishermen are prevented from entering bays where the channel is less than three miles from shore...
...boat has been built with great care and will have more than ordinary buoyancy. The bracing of the boat is the feature of particular interest, it being a new departure in shell building. A chain of unbroken iron bracing runs from the stroke clear forward to number one thus giving great stiffness, and at the same the braces have been made as light as practicable in order not to weight the boat too much. The slides are inclined so as to require the minimum exertion on the recover; in fact everything possible has been done to make the boat speedy...
...three undergradnate members of the committee the captains of the baseball, foot ball and Mott Haven teams. The amendment was accepted by Mr. Sears. When the question was thrown open to discussion it soon became evident that there was a decided opposition to the appointment of a committee thus constituted; in the end the amendment was withdrawn, and for the original motion was substituted one to the effect that the meeting appoint a committee to consider the advisability of the changes suggested. This motion was carried. There then followed a long discussion as to how the committee should be chosen...