Word: holdings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pauls' Society has made arrangements to hold daily services in its rooms during Advent, 1884, attendance at which can be substituted by the members for daily prayers in Appleton Chapel. The services will be at 5.30 P. M., on Monday; Tuesday Thursday and Friday; 7 P. M. on Wednesday, and 8.45. A. M. on Saturday. All members desiring to attend these services, will please hand their names to the Secretary, W. Leverett, 11 Wadsworth, during this week. The services will begin Monday...
...that the hare and hounds' run of yesterday would probably be the last of the season, is regretted by a considerable number of men in college. Why should not the association give more runs as long as the interest in this sport continues to hold good? There can be but two possible objections, one the cost, and the second, the weather. Neither of these is sufficient for putting an end to the runs. Take, for instance, the matter of cost. The association is not in a poverty-stricken condition, to put it mildly, and the cost, about $6 a hunt...
...effective rowing. These essential qualities are, ability to sit up straight, which can only be acquired by constant care and exercise, also the power to keep the shoulders back firmly when the body is forward on the full reach. If an oarsman negligently allows himself to overreach, his hold upon the water when first dipping his oar will prove to be jerky, consequently destroying that uniform steady sweep which should characterize a Harvard crew. A firm, upright body is then the first thing our men should...
...morning after Thanksgiving day, and suit their actions accordingly,- which means that most of them go home, stay over Sunday, and come back only to hear of small audiences in chapel, and of the numbers attending recitations being so reduced that they wonder at any attempt at all to hold recitations should be made...
...rarely consisted of more than a belt, but as the exercise became popular the prizes increased in value, and though for a time the wrestlings flourished, doing so upon an unsound basis, a decadence set in, and gradually, though surely, they fell to the position they hold at the present time.- [Land and Water...