Word: getting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...will be seen at once that the object of this amendment is to get men back promptly after the vacations, and thus, theoretically, secure a greater degree of regularity in their work. If the recesses remain as short as they are at present, this change will doubtless be the cause of inconvenience for the men who live at a considerable distance from Cambridge. Especially will this be true at Christmas when everybody wants to go home; but it would not be worth while for many men to do so for a vacation of only eleven or twelve days...
...meeting which was held on Friday last was at first intended only as a meeting to talk over the subject of forming a club. It was ascertained on Thursday afternoon that if we wished to get a room in a college building, fitted up during the spring recess, we must have a petition before the Overseers on Monday, March 25. Two meetings are usually necessary to form permanently such a society, and there was only time for one meeting in this case. As many men as possible were collected on Thursday evening and a temporary organization made with a committee...
...methods now available for introducing electricity, one is dangerous, the other too expensive. The current which supplies the incandescent lights of Cambridge is the same as that used for the are lights, except that it is lessened by reducers. The reducers, however, may at any time get out of order and allow the full current of the street lights to pass through the connecting wires and set fire to the buildings it enters. A current taken from the electric railway system would have the same objections. Another danger from any system with uninsulated wires which run near others is that...
...class championship. '89 won an inch on the drop, and continually increased their advantage without many heaves, so that before three minutes they had two inches, at four and a half minutes three inches, and when time was called five inches. Higgins, anchor of '91, did not get his legs fairly straightened out during the tug and would probably have lost a foot or more of rope in another minute...
...HUBBARD, Sec.CRICKET CLUB.- Any men who have not received their shingles or medals may get them by applying at Leavitt and Peirces...