Word: harding
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Deep, deep under the billow sleeps my love on his hard, cold pillow...
...duty, individually, to help to correct all tendency in the opposite direction. Any bitterness of feeling between classes of college men is perfectly unnecessary, we think, as the wrong acts of individual men should not be visited upon their colleges. If collegiate regattas are to breed hatred and coin hard names, they had better be discontinued; but we sincerely hope for such manly, straightforward legislation, in the next convention of colleges, that the difficulties of the past may be cancelled, and those of the future prevented...
...prospects of the University Crew seem favorable. There are a dozen men working hard for positions upon it. A welcome bit of news is that the old rowing-weights are to be abandoned, and in their place a new style, greatly superior, substituted. This new rowing apparatus will be, as far as the kind of work goes, the same as that in the boat. What is to all intents and purposes an oar will be used, and this, at the end near the fulcrum, is attached to a piston. When the power is exerted, the piston is made to force...
...game of chess - the Royal Game, as it is sometimes called - is a purely scientific pastime, calling forth a greater display of mental power and demanding more hard-earned skill than any other game of a similar kind...
...Cambridge-port, - the church to which he had given a large share of his time, whose services he had helped to beautify. In his death, although he was but entering upon his work, we have something of that feeling with which we greet the close of a long and hard-fought life. His labors in College were excessive; besides his regular studies, to which he applied himself faithfully and successfully, he had the self-imposed duties of instructing others, and of doing deeds of charity. The race which he ran was too hard a one; but we may believe that...