Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...January with the wind blowing at the rate of fifty miles an hour, and the thermometer feeling after the floor, was colder than the spring days of April; but not so my scout. All through the winter he used to put barely coal enough on the fire to keep it from going out, and would leave the door open and me shivering as long as he could. But now mark the change. I wake up in the morning and find my grate heaped to overflowing with red-hot coals. If I go out, and leave the window open to cool...
...ball, - a fact which seems to cause more pleasure there than it does here. On Thursday a challenge was received from the Princeton team, who express their willingness to play in Cambridge, and enough matches will be arranged with other colleges, so that our team will have enough to keep them busy...
...good effect of the unusually long practice last fall can easily be seen this spring in the rowing, which is much better than that of a year ago; and if the crew can keep the immense advantage they have already obtained over their immediate predecessors, it will be a long step toward closing that terrible gap of June 30; but this can only be done by the greatest care and perseverance on the part of each individual in the boat. With the exception of stroke, they lack strength on the catch, and almost every man uses his arms too soon...
...first place, it seems to some of the officers of the clubs that the present system is not a success, and that no amount of energy on their part can keep it going; the original contract with Blakey provides that each of the four clubs shall contain fifty-five members, all paid up, at the rate of fifteen dollars per annum. This has by no means been the case at any time since the starting of the system. The boat-house and boats have not proved to be attractive enough to induce many to make use of them except just...
...fifty joined the association, and the money got by their initiation fees was sufficient to pay all debts, and leave a surplus of about $17 in the treasury. Surely the present Freshman class, which is nearly as large as '79, when it entered, ought to furnish members enough to keep up the association. There is nothing of the kind in College from which so much pleasure can be derived for so small a sum ($2.25, including shingle), and if each class does its duty by the association, the prospect of a much-dreaded assessment is very small...