Word: lasting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Professor R. Swan, librarian at Purdue University, died last Tuesday night at his home in West Lafayette, Indiana. He was a graduate of Harvard, and at one time occupied the chair of Latin at Phillips Exeter Academy...
Here we are. Will send rest some time in near future. The manager of West Ends owes me for pitching that last game against Whitings...
...scene of the "Gotterdammerung" is laid on the coast of the North sea. This consists of thirty-two adventures of 1700 verses. It differs from the "Nibelungen" in the metre of the last verse in that each stanzas is increased by a single accent. The great peculiarity of the poem, however, is that it extends over three generations...
...special meeting of the Natural History Society was held last evening in the society's rooms for the purpose of laying out plans for the coming winter. The president, Professor N. S. Shaler, made an intersting address on the history of the society and its field of work. A committee appointed at the last meeting reported in favor of papers or talks at each meeting as far as possible by members of the society. The report was accepted and it was also voted to begin a systematic study of the natural history of the vicinity by means of field work...
...grows very wearisome to repeat year by year the demands of the preceding season, and yet this seems to be a necessity. Now, more than ever, the bathing facilities of the gymnasium are insufficient for the accomodation of the students during the last part of the afternoon hour, and the inconvenience will of course increase as the winter advances. Particularly is the difficulty felt in the lack of set tubs and shower jets; so much so, in fact, that from five to half past five in the afternoon anywhere from a half to a dozen men are almost constantly...