Word: findings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...with reluctance that I find it necessary to enter in your columns a protest against the present management of the Memorial Dining Association. It must have become apparent, however, to the students eating at Memorial, that at all times this autumn food has "run short," and that this inconvenience has occurred with annoying frequency within the last few days. It happens every day now, that the man who is so unfortunate as to arrive so late as 1.10 for lunch finds everything has "Fun out," and is fed with any scraps his waiter may have the ingenuity to gather...
...Woburn, the Middlesex Fells, and in the valley of the Mystic there are many scenes of great attractiveness. The landscape views of this region are mostly small in effect. It is only along the coast, on the marshes and on the hills, as in the Blue Hills, that we find breadth and largeness of view...
Coming to the immediate environment of Cambridge we find natural features in the geologic formations that have influenced seriously the lives of men in this region since the earliest settlements. The deposits of boulders so common about here drove the pioneers to their towns on barren sand plains instead of on the fertile but stubborn hills and valleys. The slow, persevering labor necessary to reclaim the present farm land from boulders and forests has had an almost inestimable effect on the characters of the New Englanders...
...apply to the lives of men? Here and there is a man who bends his concentrated energies in utter self-absorption to some one task of his own, to the accomplishing of some purpose, to the achievement of reputation and renown; and often he accomplishes his task only to find that the prize he has grasped has turned to ashes in his hand, that in gaining an object he has lost the sweetness of life, that in winning a place a place in men's estimation he has lost his place in men's hearts. Again, there is the other...
...everything depends upon the guards, every effort is made to find brilliant players for this position. One man has been found, Piekarkski, a schoolboy from Wyoming Seminary, who is two inches over six feet in height, and weighs 195 pounds. He is developing into a hard line-bucker, and will probably play right guard. The other guard has not been found. Baird, McCabe and Sterner are all good men, the former being by far the best line-bucker. He was Captain Hare's substitute last year. Teas, last year's guard, has just come out, but he is still playing...