Word: letting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sunny room at No. 9 Story street, furnished, and supplied with heat and bath, will be let for the rest of the college year at a very low rate. Address, Box 7, Cambridge, Mass...
...make journalism a profession, for some kind an elective which will in a measure prepare them for their future life work. Already many other colleges, among them Cornell and Columbia, have securred the services of able journalists to deliver to the students, courses of lectures during the coming year. Let us hope that Harvard will not be behind her sisters in this respect, and that in our next elective pamphlet, we shall see the announcement that arrangements have been made either for a systematic course of study, or for a series of lectures on the subject...
...sunny room at No. 9 Story street, furnished, and supplied with heat and bath, will be let for the rest of the college year at a very low rate. Address, Box 7, Cambridge, Mass...
...Let us first look at the rowing, Harvard's favorite sport, and see from what a curious chaos it has sprung. Starting with a heavy eight-oared barge, in 1844, in which the club sometimes took ladies rowing, the first race with Yale was won after only four days' practice. To-day we see races planned a year ahead, men practising an hour every day, rowing on artificial machines, running and exercising with weights and dumb-bells. Then, they trusted to their strength and endurance only, to pull their boat ahead of their New Haven rivals. Now, the Harvard stroke...
...Again, let us look at foot-ball, which in the days of "Tom Brown," was played by fifty or more men, without any more regard for science than any ordinary mob displays; no doubt the game was exciting; no doubt, fine plays were made; but it was still painfully crude and undeveloped. Let us look at it now;-twenty-two men, carefully trained and in the highest possession of all their powers, contest the game with all the confidence and skill that only careful instruction inspires. There they depended on numbers and strent to win the game; here, there...