Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...chances that Harvard plays the Cochituates to-morrow are small, unless the weather makes a mistake and proves clear...
...order to facilitate a more careful study of the spectra of the brightest stars, Mrs. Draper has loaned to the Observatory the eleven-inch photographic telescope employed by her husband, and it has been mounted with two prisms in front of the object-glass, one of which has a clear aperture of eleven inches square and an angle of nearly fifteen degrees, forming thus the most powerful equipment for stellar spectroscopy in existence...
...first of his series of lectures on "Railroad Administration." A large audience was assembled in Sever 11 and listened to an entertaining and instructive lecture. The effect of modern railroads upon social growth was the first topic discussed by Professor Hadley. The necessity of government legislation was made clear, by showing that all the evils of various state laws would result unless the United States took the matter in charge. After a short resume of the history of the railroads in the United States the question of "special rates" was considered. Very often in the administration of railroads it happens...
...Swain, '88, contested in the vault and in the parallel bars, which were among the events counted towards the general excellence prize. When the bar was at 6 feet 7 3-4 inches, Slade, Davidson and Perkins were the only men who had not failed. All three cleared it, Perkins on the third trial. The bar was then raised, and Perkins won the cup by a vault of 6 feet 8 1-2 inches. Neither of the other two could get over this height in the three trials allowed, and the bar was therefore lowered to the previous height...
Just because the rooms are few in number the oldest classmen should have the first right to them. In the old days, a Harvard senior could not graduate with a clear conscience unless he had roomed in Holworthy. Nowadays, he is lucky if his last hours are spent within sight of the old pile! Will you kindly ask the parietal committee, or whoever has our welfare in charge, to institute some graded system, by which the classes should draw for rooms in order of their seniority. What is left after they have what they want, could...