Word: far
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Very few freshmen have joined the Bicycle Club so far. It is earnestly hoped that all who intend to join will do so as soon as possible, as a director from '88 will not be chosen unless more riders join from that class...
...another respect also the railroads are the source of profound public interest. Few matters of legislative action, either in Congress, or in the State assemblies, excite more difficulties or attract more attention than that of the regulation of railroads and the immeasurable matters connected with the railroads. So far is this the case that a very profitable branch of the profession of the law has already been organized devoted to the specialty of railroad...
...inaccessible. It is a subject, we contend, which in the degree of its importance ranks only after the tariff and the financial history of the United States subjects covered by the courses in Political Economy numbered 6 and 8,- and the extent of popular ignorance of it is far greater than of at least the forms of these subjects. The department of Political Economy at Harvard has always been very fertile and progressive in suggesting and presenting courses for the study of the more important economic questions of the day, and we are aware that the subject we mention comes...
...room to exhibit it and a large quantity in boxes just as it is received. The pieces of skeletons, hundreds in number for each bone, are arranged with infinite care and labor. Several men are constantly employed at this work. Two collectors are kept in the region of the far west where the fossils are found, and are sending in new matter all the time. Prof. Marsh is pushing the work with great enterprise and at great personal expense. He is giving foreign universities the benefit of the collection by sending many plaster casts to them...
...fourth and last class is miscellaneous, consisting in part of men who take "constitutionals" before breakfast, perhaps because their fathers or some other great men have done the same when they were in college, perhaps the walk is really enjoyed and found beneficial. Such men are "few and far between." Others of this class are those who don't pretend to take any exercise at all, or who argue because they room at a considerable distance from the recitation halls or Memorial they get enough exercise between their rooms and these buildings. It may be that they room up four...