Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college graduate thus describes his course: "I took my first on a clear hit with a crib; reached second on the influence of my father; stole third on a lucky bunching of my electives; and came home because the faculty got rattled at my fine playing." - University Herald...
...agreement was made in 1881 by the two boat clubs with the people of New London, that the latter should flag the course and keep it clear on the day of the annual race. The utmost efforts of the authorities were unable to keep all strange craft off the course during the last race. In fact our boat was nearly swamped by a passing steam-yacht. It is easy to imagine how much worse would be the result if the authorities took no charge whatever of the course during the race. This arrangement, advantageous to both parties, expired with...
...clear, cold weather which has now come upon us prompts us to inquire about the late Harvard Hockey Club. This organization was started, last year, under very promising auspices, and for a short time it lead a humble but useful career. By placing bulletins upon University, announcing the existence of good ice on Fresh Pond or Glacialis, the club rendered service to the students. We venture to make the suggestion that the club again perform this duty...
...until about three years ago. A very much longer delay accompanied the casting of the crown glass, which was received last October. The original castings were an inch or more greater radius than after grinding, and almost innumerable difficulties had to be overcome in order to get a perfectly clear and homogeneous piece of glass of such size...
When the two glasses are finally set in the brass mountings and the lens is complete, the diameter of clear glass inside the fittings will be three feet, the lens having a focal distance of 57 feet! This means that the cylinder of the telescope itself will be at least 57 feet in length, a monstrous "spy glass" indeed...