Word: load
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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There can be little doubt, says the London Athenaeum, that Prof. Huxley in these trenchant criticisms was glancing at Eton. Not that Eton is a sinner above other public schools; but instead of taking the load with its large endowments and prestige, naturally enough it has followed in the wake of Rugby, and other foundations, and in the matter of Latin verse, which we may take as the touch-stone of a reforming, or a non-reforming school, has shown itself the most conservative of them all. The first step to any real reform of studies is the abolition...
...college was visited by a barge load of school children, Saturday afternoon...
...Holmes Field in condition for matches, but the new diamond seems to have had superior attractions for drawing a crowd, and in consequence the half dollars have rolled by thousands into the treasury. The financial ability to do what is necessary for the nine removes a great load from the management and ought to enable them to arrange practice games with the very best clubs next spring This is what is most needed to prepare the nine for ultimate victory-that for which every Harvard man longs so heartily...
...yard was enlivened a few days ago by a barge load of young ladies from Lassell Seminary...
...Faulty construction: not having the summer, which had to carry the bulk of the load, rest firmly on the pile; not fastening the pile to the other parts of the structure, and not sinking the pile firmly into the gravel...