Word: fill
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fill all the minds of his friends with alarm...
...MEETING of the Executive Committee was held last Wednesday evening, and one or two points of general interest were discussed. After Mr. Weld, '76, had been elected to fill the position on the Regatta Committee, and Mr. Roberts, '71, and Mr. Heminway, '77, to be the two judges, the question as to whether or not a single-sculler should be sent to Saratoga was brought up. Harvard has been so feebly represented in this part of the Regatta during the past few years, that every one must feel that it is better to send nobody than...
...Freshmen should study mathematics without doubt, but it is manifestly unnecessary to force them to study four different kinds, besides mechanics and chemistry. The effect of this system is twofold: to make the Freshman year very disagreeable and expensive to those students who have not mathematical minds, and to fill the pockets of private tutors, who expect a large compensation for the disagreeableness of the occupation which they pursue. The excessive amount of mathematics required in the Freshman year is profitable alone to the tutors, who reap a rich harvest before every examination. The proof of what...
...LARGE hole has been made in the Yard back of the Library, and the dwellers on the back of Weld will have their fill of noise next winter. The disciples of Goodeve will be seen in large numbers in that part of the Yard; and it has been suggested that the Corporation would save money by holding next year's recitations in Mechanics there, and obliging the Freshmen to perform practical examples...
...fill it with imaginings of heaven...