Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...item of $693.48 was for wages paid John Smyth. It was for fourteen months services and considering the man and his duties, does not seem to me high. Anyone who has had any experience with racing shells knows that there are always repairs and changes to be made. This work Smyth has always attended to, and by saving us the expense of sending the boats away to be repaired, has justified the club in paying him what would appear to one unacquainted with the facts rather high wages...
...cook also brings all the knives, forks etc., and the greater part of the crockery. This year the cook came down June 15th and stayed until July 3rd. Considering the shortness of the engagement and the great importance to the crew of good cooking, the sum paid is not high...
...good show of winning at Mott Haven. He needs training and experience in turning sharp corners of a track. In the tug-of-war we stand as good a chance as ever before; although we have lost Easton, Balch, '88, will be able to fill his place. In the high jump, Page, of Pennsylvania, will probably enter and again carry off the honors. Wright, L. S., winner of the mile walk last year is still in college, and if he will walk we have a very good chance of taking first place in that event, but otherwise our chances...
...living in Cambridge I should search in vain for any such. But so far away as I am, at my age too (who am on the edge of my seventieth year) and with the many duties that just now demand my instant and exclusive attention-for it is high time I should be putting my house in order-I feel that I am warranted in denying a petition which, under other circumstances, I should receive as a command, and in declining a duty to which, at best I could give but half of even what strength is left...
...will be connected by telegraph with the observatories at Harvard, Washington, Mt. Hamilton, Cal., and Greenwich, England. The telescope will be fifteen feet long with a twelve-inch aperture, and will be placed in a building eighty feet long on the top of Mt. David which is 400 feet high...