Word: means
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...barges underneath. It should have some memorials of illustrious men and great events - a statue of John Harvard, an arch to Wendell Phillips, or a tower to Longfellow. The estimated cost of the present plan is $416,000. A suitable bridge would cost a million more, but a mean structure is the worst extravagance, and the extra money could easily be obtained by appropriations and subscriptions. The wealthy residents of the Back Bay, the land companies and the horse-railway companies to be benefited by the bridge would gladly subscribe if thereby they could secure the finest structure in America...
...soon as the Princeton team saw that the game was lost they resorted to personal remarks in coaching and to all the mean tactics known to base-ball and foot-ball. All this seemed the more absurd when the "rattling" process was started the score...
...mean by "patriotism," however, the blinding of our eyes to the imperfections that surround us, but the exertion of whatever strength we may possess in attempting to improve as well as to serve the customs and institutions which are in vogue here in Cambridge. In this the CRIMSON will be eminently conservative, and will endeavor never to transcend the bounds of propriety which limit expression of opinion at college as well as elsewhere. We shall keep within the limits which custom has assigned to college papers. But when we have once espoused a cause, our duty in devoting...
...23rd, Harvard stating as her terms, one hundred dollars, and asking how much Williams would pay if unwilling to pay that sum. The offer from Yale was preferred, and having accepted this, the Williams manager declined the one from Harvard. The 27th, the second date mentioned by Williams had mean while been taken by Trinity, and in reply to Harvard's request for a later date Williams sent the telegram of October 11th, mentioned in my former communication...
...been rudely worn down, fresh sods have been placed. The flower beds have been laid in many instances close to the corners of the college buildings, along the routes which have been used by students as "short cuts" regardless of the fact that narrow foot-paths across the turf mean death to the young grass. The pernicious practice of crossing the college yard wherever it suits one's convenience cannot be censured too severely, and it is to be hoped that the care which will be taken by the college authorities to preserve the beauty of the grass plots will...