Word: old
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Harvard boat houses, has taken up its quarters at the Weld boat house. The sophomores are at the house of the Riverside Boat Club. It is hoped that the fumigation of the 'varsity boat house will be completed by Friday when the crews will again take up the old quarters...
...title page is a picture, after an old print, of Holden, Hollis and Harvard Halls...
...wish to speak of oratory and acting, which reminds me of a time that I visited a little New Hampshire school house. After I had surveyed its walls, whitewashed inside and outside, its hard benches and plain blackboard, the unsympathetic teacher and the sympathetic birch rod, an old gentleman came up to me and said: "We don't want any school around here. Years ago we got along without it. I'm going to vote agin it and so's my wife. Daniel Webster, when he was a boy, got it into his head that he had to study books...
...class affair - but '98 has done herself proud by the real service which its representatives have rendered to Yale - in vanquishing the speakers from Harvard, eloquent and finished though they were. It is believed now that the tide in Yale debating has been turned, and a return to the old days of the Linonian and Brothers societies is not far off. The sophomores this evening conferred a unique honor upon the three Yale debaters. They placed them on this fence - an honor which is accorded to freshmen only in the event of great athletic triumphs - and cheered wildly for them...
...East Side House is at the foot of East 76th street, New York city. The building itself is a roomy old country mansion. It stands on a bluff extending from 75th to 76th streets and overlooks the East River. The house and grounds probably afford the largest free breathing space that there is anywhere in the east side tenement district. One could hardly find a more pleasant spot from which to study and work in the slums...