Word: armes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...College to the Rev. Asa Dalton, vice-president of the Maine Harvard Club, and we carefully considered them. He authorized me to say that he cordially agreed with me in what I am about to say. We sympathize fully in regard to the object at which the young gentlemen arm. It is, in our judgment, impolitic, if not unjust, to require attendance at prayers of all undergraduate 8 rooming within a half-mile, or within a quarter mile of the chapel. There ought to be a provision by which students over twenty-one, and the parents of those under twenty...
...despondent pupil with marked kindness, and particularly urged him to think of nothing but his books and all would yet came out well. The advice was heeded, and at the end of the first quarter Mr. Emery mustered his class in line and formally taking young Webster's arm marched him from the foot to the extreme head of the class, exclaiming that this was his proper place. This success encouraged denial, and he renewed his efforts. At the end of the second quarter, the class was again mustered, and Mr. Emery stood before it, when, after a deep silence...
...used in the construction of the machine. The principle is simply that of friction. An iron rod bent in the shape of an are of a circle is attached to the end of the lever, and fits into grooves in a couple of blocks at the end of the arm. When the oar is turned as when pulling against the water the rod is pressed against the sides of the blocks giving friction enough to make the stroke about as hard as when rowing in water, but when the oar is turned as in feathering, the bar slides freely...
...favor of more light late in the evening in the halls of the main buildings is a little incident that happened there not long since. An upper classman while coming down stairs from a late recitation rushed up to a co-ed and with a swoop of his right arm encircled her neck, saying, "Hello Bill, old boy. How de do." When the time for red fire and slow music came he might have been seen hanging from the window sill of the 4th story hall blushing like a house afire.-[Michigan Chronicle...
...Cambridge liberty pole and a few remarks in the newspapers are all that remind them that the day is a legal holiday. One year we did have some celebrations. In '83 there was a display in the yard of several patent fire escapes. whereby several ankles were sprained, one arm broken, and doubtless no end of bruises received. In the same year also many students witnessed two exciting dogfights in the Quadrangle. In '84 there was no such public celebration. May we hope that 1885 will at least do as well...