Word: carefully
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exercise. The importance of his positing may be inferred from the fact that 422 men had lockers for rowing last year. The supervision of nearly 700 oarsmen, or would-be oarsmen, and their equipment is a serious and complicated matter to which Dr. Home gave himself with scrupulous care and with gratifying results...
...obvious hostility to Harvard teams was caused by the restrictions imposed on members of the University who were not graduates of the University and were supposed to be less interested in Harvard athletics than Harvard graduates. It is the purpose of the Committee to study the situation with care before the next distribution of tickets to a Yale game in the Stadium...
...deeply grieved to think that a communication in which "its line of reasoning is similar to the mental process by which a small boy considers" a question should need to be analyzed and explained for Harvard men whom I have always thought "are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves". The realization of that fact forces me to enjoy all the more my worthy critic's editorial. "The Same as Us", because it is beyond a doubt the "Height of the Ridiculous". JOHN SUMNER WOOD...
While the tutoring schools serve a large percentage of the University's undergraduates in a very useful way, it is not necessary for any one to come to their defense. They are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves...
...also a reader and collector of precious books, until his library numbered five thousand volumes, and was described by Mr. Robert C. Winthrop as the most valuable library of English books with which he was acquainted. Before the death of Mr. Dowse, he conveyed this library, gathered with infinite care, to the Massachusetts Historical Society, thus becoming at that time its chief benefactor. His executors, authorized by his will to distribute the residue of his estate for "literary, scientific, and charitable purposes", conveyed to the City of Cambridge $10,000 on condition that $600 a year should be paid "every...