Word: bearings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...prove that they have not these qualities the Class Day Committee is powerless. A case has come to our notice which illustrates the point. It is an instance where the Class Day Committee has no jurisdiction whatever, and where public feeling is the power to be brought to bear. The facts are simple enough. A man in the present senior class early in the year secured the promise of a large number of rooms for Class Day. He has found that he does not need all the rooms, and so he is selling the extra ones to seniors less fortunate...
...river stones, then earth had been filled in, and over all broad, flat stones placed. In this rude incitement their bodies have reposed for centuries. There are evidences that the men had died in conflict. About the neck of one of the child skeletons was found a necklace of bear's teeth, and in two or three of the graves were found tomahawks and stone hatchets, but no relics of any especial value. The graves will be reconstructed exactly as found, for the world's fair exhibit of American antiquities, except that no earth will be over the skeletons...
...Coolidge believes that it is more or less of a matter of principle for Harvard to do all she can to discourage the tug-of-war. This set opinion of the college will have weight, we hope, with the captain who, in making his decision, has to bear in mind both the principle in the matter which Harvard has made and the fact that no chance for honorably winning points for the college should be disregarded...
...eight hour law would bear unequally on the various industries owing to differences as to:- (a) Use of machinery and manual labor:- (b) Physiological conditions:- (c) Length of working year: Contemp...
...class races, and will not remember it; but we trust that they will take our word for the discomfort and annoyance which their predecessors caused and endeavor to keep out of the way today. If the managers of all the tug boats on the course will bear this word of caution in mind, much unnecessary inconvenience may be avoided...