Word: nearing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Holmes House, made a prayer before the soldiers just starting for Bunker Hill. Harvard was now entirely given over to the military. Two thousand men were quartered in her halls, and earthworks were thrown up on the College green. In the old meeting-house, which stood very near where Dane Hall now stands, the minute-men and the famous Committee of Safety were organized...
...evening making it a pleasant finale to the evening's enjoyment. While going through Cambridge Street, the colored gentry seemed to appreciate the sweet negro melodies which have been brought in vogue of late by '77. For some unaccountable reason the singing subsided as the party drew near the "Port," and there was a discussion what it was that, bred in the bone of the "Port peeler," made him so different from his brethren of Boston. But the party only saved their breath until they reached the Yard, when they gave the nine cheers, for the last time...
...well with the encouragement of being ahead, and perhaps might discourage or unnerve the crews behind. It is a game not often successful, but is the only one to be tried in such a case. Cambridge tried it this year, and although she did not win, she certainly came near breaking up the time of the Oxford boat during the first mile, and might have succeeded had there been a less steady, cool-headed stroke for the dark blues than...
...seems strange that coxswains do not learn to take more advantage of tide and wind. During flood-tide there must be a current of one mile an hour at the least, and by avoiding half of that by keeping near the wall, during the ten minutes on the home stretch, a gain (if these premises are right) of 264 feet would be made. When the tide is running out at the rate of four or five miles an hour in mid stream, still greater loss or gain might be made by the steering...
...board several English noblemen, among whom was the Duke of Sutherland, who is famous at home for going to all the fires in London. The policemen on the beats near his home have standing instructions to call him whenever there is a fire of any consequence anywhere in the city. He was the roughest-looking person on the ship in his attire. The Indian English, of whom there were a great number on board, were more intelligent and infinitely more agreeable and courteous than their countrymen who have always lived at home. They appear to have lost their insularity...