Word: gave
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...hard as Fine Arts 1. I had to design a costume for the crew; I gave them the most delicious pull-backs, and caps with cardinal ribbons, - each girl has a waterproof ulster, of course. Since the coxswain took Cooking 8 she has grown so fat that we've had to send her to Brown...
...also suggest that the Committee make arrangements for hiring that noble instrument, the marking-machine, which has recently occupied the attention of the undergraduate mind. When not required to grind minus quantities this instrument might prove tractable, even under the direction of some other than the master mind that gave it birth. Its docility, however, must first be ascertained, for, like the gentleman's irrepressible cork-leg, when once started, it might go on forever...
...ladies who gave an open-air concert in the Yard on Monday evening were not a delegation from the new Women's College...
...Ladies" was responded to by Mr. Godkin. Mr. C. R. Sanger responded for the committee. Mr. G. P. Upham was called upon to respond for the foot-ball eleven, and Mr. F. A. Barton for the base-ball nine. Mr. Brandegee, in his response for the crew, gave a brief description of the race last summer at Owasco Lake, and stated some facts regarding the circumstances of the race and time of the crews which considerably lessened the significance of Cornell's victory. Mr. C. Sprague was called upon to respond for the Advocate; Mr. Burdett, for the Crimson...
...library-table covered with mathematical instruments, for he did not teach mathematics; the explanation soon came. He first showed me six trifling errors in my book; then he drew a circle with a radius of six inches, inscribed an equilateral triangle, and multiplied half its altitude by twenty; that gave forty-eight, my mark. I asked him to explain the principle on which he did it; but he replied that he had been a long time inventing the process, and knew it was the only fair one. I thought that "his drift was shady," and left...