Word: lay
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...well recently discovered near Boylston Hall by workmen who were building water pipes leading through the district, has proved a most interesting find. The men were constructing a long, deep trench to lay piping that should carry water from the street to Wadsworth House. As they were working, just beyond the path which leads through the Yard, opposite Boylston Hall, they came upon what they at first thought, to be a cavity where old piping foundations had been. Upon further investigation it proved to be a round well whose sides were carefully built of stone and had apparently lasted...
Professor Duane follows with an article on "Radioactive Substances in the Treatment of Cancers." This is the fourth of a series of articles in which some of the important original investigations by Harvard men of science are presented in a form suited to the lay mind. This article sums up some of the results obtained by scientists, and Harvard men in particular, in this comparatively unexplored field...
...sight of the women of fallen Troy, waiting in sorrow to hear their lot. At a time when a victory is won we look for the hymns of praise and the joy of the conquerors, but Euripides sees only the misery of the vanquished. For him the living drama lay in the tears of the conquered women and it is from them that he has named his play. Around them he has built up the action of the piece, setting forth the personalities of four heroic women: Hecuba, queen of Troy; Cassandra, her frenzied daughter; Andromache, wife of Hector...
...their last meeting, the executive committee of the Student Council found it advisable to lay the petition asking for a class vote on the beer question, on the table for more mature consideration. This was without doubt a judicious move, questions like this are not decided to best advantage in the heat of controversy. But on the other hand, it is not to be thought that the affair is forgotten, and to be quietly shelved...
...hard to lay the blame for the Unfon's shortcomings, financial or otherwise, at any man's door. The officers have done their best to keep interest up, and expenses down, and the Union has been by no means a failure as a meeting place for large numbers of students. If it has lacked patronage and morale, the officers are not to be blamed. But it is obvious that there is something extremely peccant in the state of the Union...