Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will of the late Uriah A. Boyden, property, the present value of which exceeds $230,000, was left in trust for the purpose of astronomical research "at such an elevation as to be free, so far as practicable, from the impediments to accurate observations which occur in the observatories now existing, owing to atmospheric influences...
Surely there are many sheets of water not far from either Cambridge or New Haven where three crews could row without one being at any disadvantage. Then why should not the Harvard, Columbia and Yale freshmen row on one of these, Lake Quinsigamond, for example...
Ninety has as good a crew, as far as can be ascertained at this time, as most of the preceding freshmen, and why should they be afraid to risk a race with Yale...
...college papers for? Are articles written by college officers and outsiders or by students, or by both, the desiderata? These are the two questions, the answer to which - and it will be noticed that an answer to the first is necessary, and sufficient to answer the second - would go far toward setting student publications on a surer basis. The answer, it seems to us, would be that college papers are a receptacle for the literary attempts of the students. Expression of student-opinion and pleasure to the student-readers are objects which fall in under this wider object...
Considerable amusement was occasioned in the auditor's room at the hall the other evening by the peculiar movements of a party of visitors. A student (presumably a freshman), while conducting a couple of ladies down from the gallery, so far lost his presence of mind as to continue his descent after reaching the floor of the hall. It was not until the party arrived in the cellar, and found themselves surrounded by the gloomy instruments of torture for which this part of the building is celebrated, that the unfortunate mistake was discovered and corrected...