Word: close
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Exeter's rushers. Butler and Piper followed with short runs and carried the ball within twenty-five yards of Exeter's line. Wood made a good try for a touchdown, but was well tackled by Cranston, the center rusher of the Exeter team. The ball was very close to the Exeter goal, and after a short run by Sears, Holden made the first touchdown for Harvard, but Saxe was unable to kick a goal from it. Time five minutes after the play began. Three minutes later Wood ran across the line again and secured another touchdown. This time a goal...
...this country as a delegate to the medical conference in Washington. James Grant, Bey, replied to this introduction thanking Prof. Cook for his kindness and then commenced on the subject of the lecture, "No history in the world is so fascinating as bible history on account of its close connection with history of other nations of antiquity, and in this respect Egypt plays a most important part. The source of Egyptian history is chiefly derived from the inscriptions on the old temples and tombs. Many attempts were made in the 16th century to read these hieroglyphics, but no one made...
...execrable ventilation of the library. It is Harvard's boast to have a library which possesses more advantages for students than that of any other University in this country; but of what benefit are the treasured books if, in order to read them one has to suffer either a close, shiftin atmosphere or to endure such a continuous current of cold air beating down on one's head as to confine him in his room for a day or so with a bad cold or a sore throat. Prof. Childs was compelled to stay in his house two days last...
...that it is all because the men of ninety who have thus unceremoniously left their class, chose to "loaf" and "play" during their freshman year, instead of showing that praise worthy and laudable attention to work, which has ever been the leading character of every Harvard freshman. Now a close investigation of the subject shows that a large proportion of these "dropped eggs," were dropped-not because they failed in any courses last year, but simply because they managed to get several of those cabalistic signs-or hieroglyphics-which well-educated English speaking people call D. Many of these...
...freshmen who are wise enough to learn through the experience of others will close their doors to-night, they will have learned none too early in their college life that their salvation at Harvard, as well as elsewhere, lies not in subservience, as some would try to make them believe, but in a quiet, dignified independence...