Word: using
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...meeting of the executive committee of the Cycling Association the proposition was considered of bying a few racing bicycles for the use of the association. Comparatively few college men can afford to buy racing machines for themselves, and they are very heavily handicapped if they ride road machines; while if the association buys some racers, as is now expected, it will bring out men who have ability but are now kept off the track by the lack of proper machines. A nominal rental would be charged for the use of the bicycles in training and in races to insure care...
...crews, four in number, rowed in barges. The course was in front of the boat house, from the bend just below the coal wharf down to the bridge. It was a very short course but it seemed to use up the men pretty well...
...annual lecture upon each of four subjects in succession. The lectures were stopped in 1857 because the fund had diminished, but were revived two years ago, with a discourse upon "The Validity of the Ordination of Ministers." Last year the subject was "The proving explaining, and proper use and improvement of the principles of natural religion, as it is commonly called and understood by Divines and learned men." The lecture tonight will be delivered by a Roman Catholic, for the first time since the founding of the series. Next year the lecture will be a discussion of the fallacies...
...finished it was accepted, we understand, in the regular prescribed way by the corporation, but, strange to say, all authority over thecontrol of the building seems to have gone to the winds. It is impossible to find out who has charge. The eleven have just seen fit to use the building and find themselves embarrassed at every turn. In the first place it took nearly a week to find out who had authority to open the building; after a deal of fussing it was finally opened, but only to find that no one had authority to light and heat...
...building, and with a like situation and dimensions is the base ball cage. At present the floor, which is made of fine gravel and mud, is solf and wet as it is being put into good order. The cage is well lighted and admirably adapted for the use of the nine...