Word: harboring
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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President Lowell was then introduced. He deplored the fact that he would be unable to meet Freshmen personally as he had been wont to do in former years. He likened the life of a Freshman to that of a sea captain about to leave the harbor for a foreign port. Like the captain who guides his ship by the compass, so the new student must guide his acts by his conscience...
...race Wallis, who stroked Yale's winning university four last year, was put in at stroke, Howe returning to his old seat at 6. The other places were filed from members of last year's freshman eights and university fours. Although there was much bad weather on the harbor at New Haven, the crew improved steadily and consistently, until it was as efficient as the average fast eight which Coach Kennedy regularly turns out. At New London the crew has rowed two fast time trials and continued to improve. The crew this year seems to be different from the Yale...
...Eliot will, however, make a short tour through the Middle West, and on June 1 deliver the annual Phi Beta Kappa address at the University of Missouri. He will start back to Cambridge on June 2, and from Cambridge will go immediately to his summer home at Northeast Harbor, Maine...
...Smith cited the instance of Lieutenant Hobson who, ready to die for his country in the Spanish War, blocked the entrance to the harbor in which the enemy's fleet lay at anchor. Immediately the whole country rang with the praises of this daring young officer--until a newspaper story stamped him as vain and sentimental. It was the same with the man who won the battle of Manila Bay. When our nation, anxious to show its gratitude to Admiral Dewey, presented him with a house, he turned it over to his wife, and immediately "mud" was thrown...
...Smith first worked as a clerk in some iron works and was later educated as a mechanical engineer. He constructed the government sea-wall around Governor's Island and another at Tompkinsville, Staten Island. He also laid the foundation for the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor. Mr. Smith is also well known as an artist and as an author. He has done much landscape work in water colors and has lectured on art subjects. In 1900, he was made Commander of the Order of the Osmauyeh by the Sultan of Turkey. In the following year, he was awarded...