Word: nearly
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Friday the joint commission of the Massachusetts Legislature, made up of the Committee on Metropolitan Affairs, and the Committee on Harbors and Public Lands, Will give a hearing on the project of building a dam across the Charles River near Craigie Bridge. In connection with the building of this dam a committee composed of sixteen prominent citizens of Boston, Cambridge, Newton and Watertown has asked the legislature to provide for the appointment of a special commission to work out the details and report to the next General Court the probable cost of a project which, if in can be carried...
Work will begun this week on Bertram Hall, the new dormitory given to Radcliffe by Mrs. D. P. Kimball., It will be a three story brick building, accommodating twenty five students, and will be ready for use next September. The site is on Shepard Street, near Walker...
...Gaudeum certaminis"--the joy of the struggle--were the words with which one of the friends of Stevenson used to sum up the spirit of the author's career. Throughout his life, Stevenson had constantly to fight--against sickness and the very near approach of death, but he was always ardent, joyous and invincibly courageous. Stevenson's artistic and literary ideas may not have been original, and may even be, as Mr. Chapman believes, too fragile and ephemeral to endure; but Stevenson's character was unique, and the remembrance and the influence of it will be enduring. "Sick and well...
...five stories in this number, two have to do directly with College life and in many ways are more satisfactory than those in which the scenes are laid out side the student world. "Enough for Reggy," especially, comes very near being the sort of story, the lack of which is deplored in the "Apology for Stories...
...jump off in the first half and by long shots passed it into Technology's territory, caging it from under the blanket. Technology's weakness at blocking off made it possible for Harvard to score repeatedly from the side and centre of the field. The ball was often worked near Harvard's goal by skilful ground passing, the half ending with the score 23 to 7 in Harvard's favor...