Word: longings
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...treasureship, Harvard loses the services of a graduate who for many years has contributed all that disinterested effort and business capacity could to her interests. At the beginning of his term of service he held for several years the position of bursar here in Cambridge, and, resigning, was not long after appointed to the position he has now relinquished. The treasurership, which entails the entire management of the capital and income of the University, requires both close application and rare executive qualities. With a lack of either of these qualifications in its treasurer the University is hampered in broadening...
...recent work of the crew proves that it has speed. Most of the men exhibit plenty of life and seem to have endurance enough for the long distance. The different styles through the boat and the awkward rowing of two or three men make the crew appear less favorably than it did last year before going to Poughkeepsie, but the blade work is good and well together. The chief faults of the crew are at present unsteadiness and a hurried recover. The leg drive, although it has improved lately, is not yet as powerful as it ought...
...morning Professor Norton bade Fine Arts 3 a last farewell. The students, hurrying through the last moments of a college year, may not fully appreciate the extent of their loss, and few who do realize it feel able to express their sense of its greatness. It will doubtless be long before the work which Professor Norton has been doing, and the influence which he has been exerting, will be done and exerted again. No one man will ever fill the place in the esteem of the undergraduates which he has occupied. For during the years of his teaching...
...drawing, although evidently intended to be taken seriously is yet very funny from the artist's curious conception of horses and his grotesque style. The best individual picture are a halfpage drawing representing an optical illusion, and two small sketches illustrating rather time worn jokes. Contrary to custom, the long articles are easily the best reading of this number. Deserving of especial mention is a clever take-off on a recent Advocate story, and a pretended unpublished letter written by Li Hung Chang...
...last two years placed the study of electricity at Harvard in advance of any other college, by means of a powerful apparatus set up in the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. This battery, then the strongest in the world, was able to produce sparks in air three feet long...