Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...West Boston bridge at the end of the stretch with a half length of open water showing between the shells. With rough conditions prevailing the beat was forced down in the last half mile of rowing and the boats finished the trial, with several inches of water sloshing beneath the slides...
...Student Vagabond" and "The Third Elective" are doing their present mechanical duty in widening the tastes and opportunities of their readers, but beneath their outward purpose there seems to lie a suggestion of a more significant movement. This method of the student sitting in on classes when he wishes and doing as little or as much work as he desires may be a forerunner of an educational system somewhat similar to the "reading method" now utilized in some institutions. Such a system would require only optional attendance to lectures or classes and independent reading and outside work, guided however...
This memorable day (Sept. 8th, 1836) is ushered in by clouds, but I cannot bring myself to believe that they will not disperse. Everything should be bright on this great anniversary, the two hundredth year since the foundation of Harvard College.... The noble elm of Washington, the tree beneath which his tent was pitched in the revolutionary war, is waving quietly in the breeze not far from my window, the only object in the whole circle of my view which saw the infant day of Harvard...
Eagles that flew high over the warm bright Mediterranean last week could have espied a slim black object floating on the water beneath them. On closer scrutiny they might have noticed that it was not so slim, that it was a black, ochre-funneled yacht named the Corsair. And if they followed it they would have noticed that the yacht of J. Pierpont Morgan seemed to have no set destination, that it was just "cruising" in the Mediterranean...
...committee recommends that the Craftsmanship Medal be awarded to the Cheney Brothers for the beauty of design and texture in their modern machine woven silks." At the top of the letter was a handsome design: a Doric capital and shaft supported by an American eagle with outspread wings. Beneath this was engraved, "The American Institute of Architects...