Word: highly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Work on the new gymnasium will probably be begun in a month or two as but $20,000 of the $150,000 remains yet to be pledged. The site is on the corner of Elm and High streets opposite the campus. The gymnasium will contain, besides the usual apparatus, two rowing tanks and a swimming bath...
...adoption and enforcerent of these resolutions, and surely a matter of such considerable importance must not at this time be neglected. Freshman intercollegiate contests have too often been managed on the basis of sharp dealing, as those who have been long in college can testify; and it is high time that active measures should be taken to secure fair play to all concerned. Surely it were better that freshman athletics be entirely abolished than that the abuses which have at times characterized them be for one moment continued. We look to Ninety-three to assume the responsibility of the resolutions...
...will be a fountain, one for the people and the other for horses. The style of the whole work is Euglish of the seventeenth century, the bricks being laid in the "Flemish bond" to correspond with the main part of Harvard Hall. The centre posts will be 19 feet high, each capped with sandstone brought from Yorkshire, England. On the front of the centre posts there will be bas reliefs of the arms of Harvard College and the city of Cambridge, and on the back of the pillar the arms of the State of Massachusetts and an inscription...
...third. Dean and Linn were out on easy grounders to pitcher and first base. Howland got his base on balls, but Willard hit an easy ball to the pitcher and was retired at first. In the second inning, Lowell's first two men went out, the first on a high fly to Dean, and the second, Downer to Willard. Kellogg got a life on Downer's fumble, but was left on first base. For Harvard, Henshaw and Hawley got bases on balls, but were left when the next three men went out in order. Lowell was retired in order...
...well appreciated, but was made especially valuable yesterday by the rare treat of a sermon from Dr. A. P. Peabody. Taking as his text "Self-respect" the preacher urged every Harvard graduate to make self respect his aim in life. If exery man aim at and follows steadily a high ideal and repents thoroughly of his past sins, his moral character will be worthy of respect, Every man ought, after his exceptional facilities for work at college to respect himself as a scholar by having a genuine knowledge of all he has touched upon. In professional and business life, also...