Word: kept
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...candidates for the 'Varsity nine were out practicing on Holmes field yesterday afternoon. The grounds were in very poor condition and made ground work almost impossible. Three nets were up, and Captain Willard kept the men busy with batting and fielding. Shroll '89, Downer '89, Grant '92, Viles '92 and Churchhill '92, pitched alternately, and although they pitched straight balls only, the batting was rather weak. The majority of the candidates have already played either on the 'Varsity or on the various class nines. Willard (captain), L. S. Henshaw '89, Linn '90, and Mumford '90, have played on the 'Varsity...
...should be, why has not the Princeton management had the courtesty to write and explain the cause of the unusual delay? Whenever Princeton has played in Cambridge, the Harvard management has always paid them immediately and it is only fair that we receive like treatment from Princeton, or if kept waiting in this vexations manner, that we receive some explanation...
...moment Harvard's blades gripped the water every man in the boat, with a spring from the stretcher, and simultaneous heave of the shoulders, threw his whole weight into the oar, and kept it there until the stroke was finished. The blades were covered throughout the stroke and remained in the air as short a time as was consistent with the avoidance of "rushing" the slides. There was hardly the slightest perceptible "hang" of shoulders or hands at either end of the stroke. Although the body work was not all that could be desired, the "watermanship" or action...
...meridian. For the contemplated uses of the instrument this limitation is not regarded as a disadvantage, as the meridian position of an object is always best for observation because there the atmospheric obstruction is least. By varying the angle at which the mirror is hung, an object may be kept within the field for two hours, or even more. This motion is regulated by clockwork, which counterbalances the earth's advance through space...
...Amos W. Stetson, of Boston, has lately donated Wellesley Chilege a fine collection of paintings, which are valued at about $30,000. These paintings, by the desire of Mr. Stetson, will be kept in the new Farnsworth art building, now almost finished...