Word: oneness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...ONE of our exchanges heads an article "A Walking Trip on Foot...
When Professor Trowbridge heard of the undertaking, he became very much interested, and endeavored in every possible way to render assistance. Through his kindness the Company were allowed to test the resistance of their line-wire by connecting it with the Physical Laboratory. They found the resistance to be one seventh of that between Boston and New York. The Company then set about connecting the different buildings of the Yard with one another, and shortly afterward Mr. Burgwyn, in Thayer, essayed a match-game of chess versus Messrs. Angell, Young, MacVane, and Otis, in Hollis...
...boats entered for the double-scull race, one manned by Wetmore and Appleton, '75, the other by Bacon and Weld, '76. The first boat drew the inside and took the lead, which it continued to hold to the end of the race, winning by about twenty-seven seconds...
...surprising how little Freshman classes vary from one year to another. Always, taken as a whole, the same despised and timorous race, the additional step of classification shows that the same old percentages likewise recur, A' and B' stepping into the relative places of A and B with the greatest regularity. Levison I' Evy succeeds to the same seat at the same "swell" table which Montairon Von Aaron, the now popular Sophomore, occupied last year; smiles as sweetly, shakes as many hands, pays the same delicate attention to influential upper-class men, and, in general, follows the lead...
...careful study of Freshmen is a most interesting employment; instructive, too, if one be willing to learn truths not always agreeable. A hundred and fifty or two hundred young men and boys, strangers to each other and dissimilar in taste and habit, are thrown together toward the last of September; long before the middle of October, through some mysterious chemical reaction, the Freshman class has begun to be. Lurker and Nightoil and I' Evy still vegetate as individuals, but each has a more important and engrossing existence; he is a Freshman. An undefinable Freshmanhood has obscured all the rest...