Word: member
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...needs for his first season a guide for each member of his party; then, as to provisions, there must be coffee, crackers, condensed milk, potatoes, rice, canned meats and vegetables, - in fact, whatever you want that is portable and will keep. The rod should be fifteen to nineteen feet long, split bamboo in three joints being rather the best, although the Irish poles of two joints are good. Tents, too, have to be taken, and tent-life is well enough as a novelty, although the experienced angler prefers the huts of the natives, when there are any. The line, about...
...impetus it gives to under classes by its record of scholarship, high character, and its interest in the college papers, in societies, in boating, in baseball, and in all the departments of college life. This memorial is not finished at Commencement, but is constantly increasing as each member of the class attains success and honor in business or the professions, and is far better than a stained glass window with a portrait of Aristotle and an elaborate...
...MEMBER of '76, after a patient, if not fruitful, investigation into "the Vibrations of Sounding Bodies," announces that Mr. Stewart has made an unpardonable mistake in his Elementary Physics, p. 141, last sentence. Such errors are sure to mislead the unsuspecting...
...CLAUSE in Mr. Sumner's will establishes an annual prize consisting of the interest of $1,000 for the best essay from any member of any department of Harvard College. He assigned for a subject, "Universal Peace and the Methods by which War may be permanently suspended." Though none recognized more fully than he that armed injustice must be crushed by the strong hand of power, he still numbers himself among those who believe that in some future age the Diplomat shall entirely supersede the General. It is a matter of some doubt, perhaps, whether Universal Peace shall dawn before...
...down to enjoy a good novel, or, possibly, to indulge in the cheerful grind. Your chum, a would-be member of the ball nine, is practising drop-catch against the opposite wall; you wish, though perhaps you don't say so, that he was - anywhere, out of the room. You have collected a jolly set for euchre or vingt-et-un, and, coming into your room, find your chum hard at work upon his next theme. Though the conflict of purposes be amicably settled in both cases, you must feel how much more pleasant it would be to be sure...