Word: hand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...again at the usual time Sunday afternoon. It often happens that a man would like to read some magazine Sunday evening, but is prevented by this rule. Would it not be feasible to make some arrangement so that one of the pages or other attendants could be on hand to oversee the magazine department? If they merely have to manage the slips as on other days, I should think that there would be no difficulty in this, and such an arrangement would be a great convenience...
...highest point of the trusses, on which the roof is supported, or a mean height of 21 feet. There is afforded, therefore, an inclosed space of nearly 5,400 cubic yards. One end of the cage is doubly boarded to furnish a solid smooth surface for hand-ball practice. On the inside the ceiling is formed by wire netting, which extends the whole length of the building, completely protects the windows and rafters, and prevents the sudden rebounding of batted balls, while the entire sides and one end are protected by cord netting. Thus the whole interior of the cage...
Only one specimen of the hand writing of John Harvard has been known to be in existence, and is his signature to a document deposited in the Registry of the English University of Cambridge. Another document containing his signature and that of his brother Thomas has just been brought to light. Of this a correspondent of the Athenaeum writes...
...Barking, the lease bearing date July 29th, 1635, and the counterpart being executed by John Harvard and Thomas Harvard. A feature of no little interest is that this is not an antiquarian curiosity whose history has to be traced, with more or less of uncertainty and doubt, from one hand to another during a period of 250 years, but a document which not only is in legal custody, but in the self-same custody into which it passed so soon as the ink of the signatures to it was dry, and in which, I may add, it will remain...
...practise batting, base running and throwing from home to first and second principally without having a whole infield. Our great difficulty this year will be the lack of a catcher, and so every effort is being put forth to develop one from the material at hand, which is to say the least but poor. Ames, '90, the half-back on the 'Varsity, is developing and may do something before the season opens...