Word: drawn
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...held this afternoon on the Charles River. The course will be from the Weld Boat House to the Harvard Boat House, four crews rowing in a heat. The races will be started promptly at 4 30, and the crew will row in the order in which they were drawn. Men must be on hand promptly, ready to row, or their places will be filled...
...Masquerade" continues the Marvin series. Like its predecessors, it is written in the neutral tinted style of Henry James. It is long drawn out and pointless, though the author shows skill in expression...
...middle of that winter, a good many of us came to feel that merely on the score of health, patience had ceased to be a virtue. Accordingly a very frank protest was drawn up, numerously signed, and sent to the Board of Directors. The latter appointed a committee, at the head of which was Mr. Darling, to report fully upon possible improvents in the Hall. This report was the first step, and a long one, toward reform. Chefly in consequence of it, Mr. Darling was chosen President at the next election; and last year, having received a written request signed...
...Herrick describes a shifless, hopeless family, in his article entitled "Squalor." The picture is vividly drawn, and Mrs. Calkins and the parson stand out as if they were real persons...
...football game in New York may have prejudiced them. It should not have blinded them to the interests of the undergraduates and the college as a whole. It seems to us that-after the captains of the university teams, the graduate advisory committees, and the athletic committee had drawn up articles with great care and deliberation, and after the undergraduates had expressed their entire confidence in the outcome of the negotiations, any alumni should have hesitated about taking any steps which might, complicate the discussion. With this proposal purporting to come from a "committee" of New York Yale and Harvard...