Word: kidder
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There are four regular courses given: Agriculture, Mr. Motley; Horticulture, Mr. Watson; Botany, Mr. Kidder; Agricultural Chemistry, Professor Storer. Instruction is given by lectures and recitations and by practical exercises in the laboratories, greenhouses, and fields. Excursions moreover, are made in the surrounding country for studying farms, animals, and dairies; for observing methods and instruments employed for removing rocks and stumps, for draining and clearing land, for preparing cranberry bogs...
...crew has not shown any remarkable improvement since they began rowing on the river, although they have had the most careful coaching from Kidder '92, and Mr. Watson. The tendency of the men throughout the boat is still to row their oars out of the water badly at the finish. The discipline of the crew is apparently lax when the men are rowing, and the time is often bad because of the tendency of several men to look out of the boat, a habit of inattention which cannot be too strongly condemned in a freshman crew just beginning its work...
Yesterday the freshman crew went on the river again. The substitutes rowed in pair-oars. Mr. Kidder coached from one of the pair-oars. The men now take a walk every morning at 7.30, followed by a short run, and a sharp walk in the evening at 9. Captain Ames has given the men some directions as to diet...
...Kidder, captain of the '92 freshman crew, which was coached by Mr. Watson, and which was the last Harvard freshman crew to win from Yale, has been secured to coach the '98 crew. Mr. Kidder, having been under Mr. Watson's coaching is thoroughly in sympathy with his views...
Folk Lore Society.At the regular meeting of the Harvard Folk Lore Society, Mr. Kidder gave two interesting stories showing the peculiar mythology among the Ojibway Indians resulting from French-Canadian influence; one "The Beauty of the Prairie," and the other "The Story of the Cedar Knife." Mr. Hisa added a primitive Japanese legend entitled, "The Shining Princess...