Word: bearing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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Granting that the system has succeeded better than was expected, it is still far from perfect and we fail to see how it can be extended to the whole hall. From the standpoint of those who after all have to eat there and bear the practical illustration of the experiment, the general table system is not desirable. But from the steward's standpoint - which is that the facilities are now overtaxed and cannot be increased - it is evident that something must be done...
During the last few years the great growth of Harvard has been making itself manifest in even the smallest branches of the University. The statistics which are published every year bear witness to the unfailing increase in the number of men who choose Harvard as the institution at which to gain their higher education; and the present year especially has seen a tremendous addition to the numbers of the students. Side by side with these statistical evidences of growth have been seen others equally telling. The accommodations of the college have had to be increased to meet the pressure...
Shells will cross this line between Beacon Street, and the judges' boat, which will bear a flag...
...take the step which they took last evening. Games with the University of Pennsylvania and Haverford, two of the American colleges most interested in cricket, have been considered desirable for the advancement of cricket at Harvard; and with the cricket eleven showing that it would be able to bear the expenses of such a trip there was sufficient reason to warrant the team's making the trip for which they petitioned...
...paper to the April number of the Monthly entitled "Some Neglected Characteristics of the New England Puritans." The article is a valuable addition to the literature on New England Puritans through the considerable study it shows on the subject and the many noteworthy points of interest it brings to bear. Mr. Wendell brings out especially the characteristic of self curiosity which possessed the Puritans to a large degree. "The Earl of Surrey" by W. G. Howard is an interesting review of Surrey in the two aspects of cavalier and author. Surrey was by means a great poet, but he wrote...