Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Music Lower Dane Hall...
Harvard's new dormitory, which will be called the Walter Hastings Hall, after its donor, is now well under way, and will probably be ready for use in the fall of 1889. The basement and two lower stories are already built, and it is hoped that the building will be entirely closed in before winter, so that the plastering may be done during the cold weather. The exterior dimensions are 210x120 feet, and the material used in construction is a yellowish-brown brick, mottled with blue, which is made by the Perth Amboy Company in New Jersey. This material...
...Beta Kappa. Harvard Chapter. Business Meeting, Boylston Hall, Upper Lecture Room, 10 a. m.- Oration by Charles W. Eliot. LL. D., Sanders Theatre, 12 m.- Dinner at 1.45 p. m. in Lower Massachusetts...
...fast for good time in the half. The timers were Trowbridge, '82 S., and Coxe, '87. The judges were Hinckley, '89, McCormick, '90, and Tracy, '90. Before the end of the term another meeting will be held by the association at which attempts will be made to lower other Yale records. The officers of this meeting will be from the New York Athletic Club...
...steam in order to keep up with the crew, the connecting rod of the low-pressure cylinder broke, knocking off the cylinder head and smashing things generally. This necessitated taking the launch to the dry-dock for repairs. In the evening the engineer started with her for the lower basin, but she became unmanageable and went aground on a mud bank off the Crescent Boat Club house. The skid on the keel stuck in the mud and prevented the tide from floating the launch. She soon began to fill and the engineer was compelled to swim ashore. Efforts were made...