Word: draw
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...race will be started at 12.45 promptly. Each crew is expected to be at the Brookline Bridge at 12.30 o'clock, when the railroad draw will be opened. Any crew, not on hand at this time, will run the risk of being left out of the race...
...year, when everybody is thirsty and the college pumps are used to their utmost capacity. Seriously, we congratulate the league on having procured such eminent speakers as will address the college to-night in Sanders. We are sure that Mrs. Livermore and Col. Higginson will not fail to draw out a large audience; and we believe that all who can, should attend, although it be only to see and "hear" these two eminent speakers of the day. Then, too, the cause which they will advocate and the arguments which they are to present will be well worth attention and consideration...
...magazine would, in its endeavor to get subscribers, draw away, more or less seriously, from the present almost insufficient support given the "Advocate" or Lampoon. Even if the Monthly itself survived, one or both of the others might be forced to stop. If, now, the work proposed to be done by the Monthly could not be done by one of the papers already established, then we would say "Start the new paper, and let either the Lampoon or "Advocate" die, if need be." But since the "Advocate" can, and will do exactly the kind of work, and as much...
...running across the grass plots, can the yard be made to have its usual beautiful appearance. The college horse, famed in antiquity, depends in a large measure, on the amount of the grass crop. Deprive him of his scanty meal of have from the yard, and who will draw the snow-plow, that paragon of our college appliances, next winter...
...wonderful dreams, we cannot but admit that dreams are among the strangest things in a strange universe. We begin to feel as humble as old Socrates, who said that he knew only that he knew nothing. It is from this very fact of our growing humility that I draw the conclusion that we are in advance of the past ages in our learning in regard to dreams. Joseph Glanville published in 1665 his book "Scepsis Scientifica," in which he very successfully shows that "Confest ignorance is the way to science." If, then, the vanity of dogmatising is not overrated...