Word: lumber
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...about four hundred and eighty dollars a year. All repairs were made by the college who took entire charge of the boat houses. The whole structure is built in the most wretched fashion, having been repaired time and again in a most careless manner with old and worthless lumber. That the accident must have occurred sooner or later, there seems to be no doubt, and that it did not happen at high tide, and was not attended with much more unpleasant circumstances is cause for congratulations to the entire college...
...School building, and we see no reason why the upper story of it, at least, could not be made over likewise into rooms for students. We should be sorry to see it stand as vacant and useless as poor old Massachusetts or given to chance claimants or as a lumber room for janitors...
...farming population of North Carolina, and kept the audience in continual good humor with his apt word pictures. "No other people in the world," he said, "have developed so far the art of resting." Manufactures are rapidly increasing in importance, especially those of cotton, iron, steel and lumber. In North Carolina alone there are 40,000 square miles of forest as yet untouched. This amount is exceeded in Florida and Georgia, and equalled in Alabama and Mississippi...
...university was the first crew out, rowing to the lumber-yard and back; they left the boat-house at a good swinging stroke, the oars striking the water with remarkable precision and unanimity. The seniors followed soon after, not rowing in very good form. The swing of the starboard men especially is poor. The new men in the boat broke up the time somewhat. The freshman launched out into their first attempt amid the smiles and kindly warnings of the assembled upper-class...
Manning, '82, is engaged in the lumber business in northern Michigan...