Word: complement
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...community than the terrible ocean disaster just reported from the other side, where the survivors from the "Ville du Havre" have arrived to tell their sad story. European travel has become of late so common that the first-class steamers on all the lines rarely sail without a full complement of passengers, including America's best and most respected citizens. Such is the regularity of our steamship communication with Europe that the formerly much-dreaded dangers of the sea are almost overlooked, till some such accident as the present warns us of the dreadful chance that still remains, after...
...College of late years has offered to the students every encouragement in the way of ball and boating, and neither has it neglected the Gymnasium, the natural complement of those more enjoyable but more restricted modes of physical training. Plans for improvement have already been considered, and were it not for the crippled condition of the College finances next summer would see the work begun. It is proposed to raise the roof of the dressing-rooms to double its present height, and to place the office, dressing-rooms, etc., on the second floor. This change would almost double the space...