Word: hourlies
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...members; for the concert, though not quite up to two or three of those last year, was yet quite equal in excellence to the average. At quarter of seven the club started in hacks for West Newton, and had a delightfully cool and moist ride of about an hour...
After the concert the settees were removed, and a very pleasant dance was improvised, at the close of which the club were invited to the house of a gentleman near by and handsomely entertained. After remaining there for about an hour, at the suggestion of the damp and cursing hackmen they started homeward, and reached Cambridge at about - o'clock, having had a very pleasant time...
...musical instrument shall be played upon, and no singing shall be allowed, except between the dinner hour and four o'clock in the afternoon, and between six o'clock and nine o'clock in the evening, and on Saturdays after the last recitation hour...
Perhaps in no course will it be possible not to give advantage to some crews over others in assigning the positions, but where five crews start in a current one eighth of a mile per hour, and six others in one of nine eighths of a mile per hour, it is an easy piece of calculation to see that in five minutes the six would be carried four hundred and forty feet ahead by the difference in current. If the five outside of the current could make up the difference and keep even with the others until...
afterwards prove to be. The idea, too, of free choice in one's studies has become rather a mockery by the requirements of the Tabular View, which insists upon recitations in two subjects during the same hour...