Word: lessing
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...less important changes made during the past year two new divisions have been established, one in Forestry and the other in Mining and Metallurgy...
...Army and Navy of the United States, Sheriffs of Suffolk and Middlesex, Judges of the Courts of the Commonwealth and of the United States. Mayors of Boston and Cambridge, officers of other universities, colleges and professional schools, holders of honorary degrees from Harvard University, alumni of not less than twenty-five years' standing, by classes...
...University eight rowed downstream about a mile and a half this morning accompanied by Wray in his single scull. A moderate stroke was maintained and the boat went better than it has at any other time this year. In the afternoon, however, the showing was less satisfactory. The crew went downstream again to the Navy Yard and back in long stretches--and one half-mile was rowed with a stroke of 38, which was raised to 40 in the last 100 yards. The boat travelled better with the fast stroke than it did with the slow. Nevertheless, the work...
...supremely considered, and all should co-operate to make the day as pleasant for their invited guests as possible. Every ticket used by a person who has no real claim, makes the Yard so much more crowded and makes the invitation to real friends of so much less value...
...race. Entering the last half-mile, Farley put up his stroke to about 36. For a short distance his crew crept up on the Freshmen, then hung for a minute and in the last 100 yards, going at almost forty strokes to the minute, gained again, finishing a little less than three-quarters of a length behind. In point of form, the University crew rowed well. Their boat rode more evenly on her keel for the first two miles than at any time previously this year, and even in the final spurt the men held together well. Farley kept...