Word: hands
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...collection for the earthquake relief fund yesterday amounted to $143.45, making a total sum of $323.40 to date. Men who have not yet contributed should hand in their contributions to the members of the committee or put them in the boxes placed around Cambridge for that purpose. As soon as all the money has been turned in, it will be sent to Lee, Higginson and Company, who have charge of the Boston contributions to the general relief fund...
...spoke at greatest length, was full of mischief and fun, always ready for anything, but a brilliant scholar, graduating at the head of the class of 1854, at the age of 19. After leaving the University, he was employed in a counting-room, and later worked as a mill hand, in order to study, the men of the working classes. Through obstinate disregard of his health he contracted tuberculosis, making it necessary for him to travel. He tried Spain, Italy and Aigiers in turn, but finally returned to America and went to take charge of a newly constructed railroad...
...Philippine question thoroughly threshed out for our edification in the Union and now we are ready for Porto Rico. There have been happenings of interest and importance here as well during these first years of our territorial expansion movement and it is well to hear of them at first hand. In spite of the articles which appear in the magazines from time to time on the condition of affairs in these new dependencies they are probably little understood and appreciated by the average citizen. A long, carefully prepared magazine article though well supplied with pictures will not generally succeed...
...squad consisted this year of some thirty players. Eighteen of these are now privileged to wear the "H." The remaining thirteen men, comprising the substitutes taken to New Haven, are not recognized by the awarding of any insignia. The second team, an inferior body of players, on the other hand, are awarded the "H 2nd." Is it not manifestly unfair that the substitutes are not awarded some token for their valuable services? Every man on the track team who is entered in the dual meet with Yale is given an "AHA." It seems to the writer that every...
...collection of about 150 volumes on exhibition, two unique volumes. One is an autograph album in which Milton signed his name in Geneva on June 10, 1639, on his return from Italy; the other is Milton's copy of Pindar; which contains copious annotations in the poet's hand. Of the works in print, the rarest is perhaps a copy of the "Obsequies of John Kean," in which Milton's Lycidas first appeared. There is also a copy of the first printed collection of his poems, dated 1645. A copy of the second folio edition of Shakspere's works, which...