Word: exceptional
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...library is open every day in the year, except Sundays and Good Friday, from 8 A. M. to 10 P. M. All the Columbia men and other scholars who are capable of using it to advantage are permitted to read and take out the books. The number of books is about 60,000 and each year a large number are being added. The building also shelters the famous Torrey herbarium with its 60,000 specimens. The object of the librarian to give to the books the greatest accessibilities with the least possible inconvenience to the reader. The libraries...
...book has been left at Bartlett's for the signature of all members of Harvard University, except members of the Law Scholl who wish to march in the Schurz procession Wednesday evening...
...leave to use your columns to call attention to a matter which I am sure will interest all Seniors and Juniors-that is the examination in forensics. I think I may say that a large proportion of the upper-class-men look with favor upon the change, except as regards the number of subjects to be prepared. A glance at the list offered will show that it contains only topics requiring advanced work and most careful study. To one who is interested in the work, it would be very unsatisfactory to go into the examination with the superficial and confused...
...rush line is peculiarly uniform,-short, but quick, stocky, powerful men. Now, I don't see why these men should not make, except for purely offensive play, a better rush line than we have had for years, in spite of their light weight, if only they can be taught to tackle Low. A man runs with his legs, not with his arms; and a big Yale man will carry half a dozen of our rushers along, and yet make enough to hold the ball after three downs; when if one player had tackled him around the hips and upset...
...rate. The crews were well matched. As they spurted along, side by side, with the oars rising and falling in measured stroke and with great regularity, they formed a very pretty sight, which was enjoyed by hundreds of spectators from the boat house and the river banks. These crews, except a stroke oarsman for each eight, had been drawn by lot. By a strange chance, each of three of the crews was composed mostly of men from a single class, so that they were called the '85, '86, and '87 crews respectively. The '87 crew won by about a fourth...