Word: highly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...here is necessarily large, for it is required for further study in several departments. It is an initiation to the Medical School that should render its sufferers absolutely impervious to disease. Possibly with more stimulating and less drugging of the senses, Chemistry 1 would not distribute each year its high proportion of wretched marks...
...granted the track management to make another set of jumping pits and run-ways on Soldiers Field. They will be placed inside the Stadium track at the opposite end of the oval from the old pits, and have already been started. They include pits and run-ways for the high-jump, broad-jump and pole-vault, and a circle for the shot...
...Germanic Museum building, was constructed in 1860 with a fund of $9,500, $8,000 of which was subscribed by Henry Bromfield Rogers '22. At first the structure was adequate to the needs of the College, but soon the small dimensions, 74 feet wide by 40 feet high, proved insufficient, until in 1878, when Augustus Hemenway '75, of Boston, gave $100,000 for the erection of a new University gymnasium. The architects were Messrs. Peabody and Stearns, of Boston, and the contractors, Norcross Bros., of Worcester. The building was opened in 1879 and was then by far the largest, best...
...some approach to uniformity and properly welded end to end. It is of course true that in a series of twenty-seven volumes by authors of widely differing attainments and experience there must of necessity be some variations in intrinsic value; but with one or two possible exceptions a high standard alike of matter and literary quality has been maintained throughout. The average of excellence is indeed quite on a parity with that afforded by recent German, French, and English enterprises of similar scope and method, while many of the volumes will no doubt take permanent place as notable contributions...
During the past few years, however, interest in the club has dwindled to a serious degree, its membership diminishing from as high as 600 to its present enrollment of less than 250. It is with the hope of reviving the old interest and developing collegiate interest in rowing that the present move is being put on foot...