Word: moving
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Prospect Union is in need of larger quarters; the number of men who wish to enter classes there is greater than can in any way be accommodated. To meet this need, the most expedient move has seemed to be the purchase of the old City Hall of Cambridge. The money for this purpose is to be raised, partly by mortgage and partly by bonds issued by the Prospect Union and secured by the real estate purchased. We speak of the matter because, in the first place, we believe that the Prospect Union does an excellent work and that every plan...
...undiscovered land whose margin fades Forever and forever as we move...
...additions to the class races are as wise a move as could have been made in athletics under present circumstances. There has been a tendency, becoming more marked lately, for 'varsity contests to overshadow class contests. Since in the former the first athletes of the University take part, and since on them the athletic reputation of the University is staked, they have come to absorb so much interest that other contests are, by the force of contrast if nothing else, inevitably depressed...
...example of this style of novel and although furiously attacked for the grim and sordid tastes which it details, is yet to be considered one of his best three books. A man who can draw such characters as we find in "A Modern Instance" and make them live and move in the sordid environment of a third rate journalism certainly did not merit the storm of abuse which greeted his masterpiece. It is to such works as this that future generations will turn to obtain a true picture of the commonplace American business...
...wish to state that the present managers of the Weld Boat Club have since last autumn been cognizant of the fact of the late opening of the house last spring, which was caused by the float's being so tightly frozen to the marsh that to try to move it would have meant its destruction. Accordingly care was taken this year to have the float raised on blocks before it was frozen fast, so that it could be put in on the first tide after the ice left the river. Mr. Geo. Weld kindly contributed the money to have...