Word: augusts
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...regatta of which the book gives an account was rowed on Lake Winnepesaukee, New Hampshire, on August 3, 1852, over a two mile course, and was won by the Harvard boat, the Oneida, which defeated the Yale boat, the Halcyon, by four lengths. The time was about fourteen minutes. This race is of special interest in the annals of intercollegiate competitions in America, for from it proceeded a wide and varied development of intercollegiate sports, extending even to contests with foreign universities...
...committee of five will be appointed by the president to confer with the United States Golf Association in relation to a match with the Oxford and Cambridge team which is expected here in August...
...dates for the session of the Summer School next year will be July 6 to August 14, inclusive. Inasmuch as the meeting of the National Teachers' Association, of which President Eliot is president is to be held in Boston beginning July 6, preparations are being made for an unusually large attendance at the Summer School. Some twenty-five additional courses will be added to those offered last year in order that the curriculum may include all branches desired by those who will be in attendance. Throughout the session of the school Gore Hall, the Museum of Zoology, the Peabody Museum...
...report of the Graduate Manager of Athletics for the fiscal year ending August 31, 1902, has been published in full in the Graduates' Magazine for December. The report shows that there is need of a large number of improvements which cannot be made because of lack of funds. The seats on the football field are totally inadequate and new ones should be built; new fields for baseball and tennis, and new equipment for both of the boat houses are needed...
...dangerous, only to be terribly deceived. The intervals and character of the eruptions of Mt. Pelee give a basis for a calculation that the French disregarded. The first explosion was on May 3, and explosions of increasing violence came on May 8, May 20, June 6, July 9, and August 30--that is, at intervals of five, twelve, seventeen, thirty-three and fifty- two days. Dr. Jaggar has had several men at work plotting curves to fill this series, and the general result points to about December 20 as the date of the next explosion, if this theory is correct...