Word: pasted
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...that the unconcealed impatience with which members of the University have taken the continued delays in the construction has not lessened their appreciation of Mr. Hemenway's generosity. The need which he has met has been the most crying one which the University has felt within the past few years. Other needs have had a more important bearing on the life of Harvard as an institution of learning, but as a civilized community, none. That the demands of health and cleanliness can now be met with a fair degree of comfort and convenience is a privilege which, though...
...charge, I leave it to the 'other man' to find specific case. What I have said is that the impression has prevailed that our athletic teams have not been representative, and I have cited the existence of this impression as an indication of the lack of unanimity in times past. It makes no difference whether there were actual grounds for this idea, or not; the chief fact is that it has existed. Personally, I do not believe that even in the worst days of Harvard athletics, before Mr. Pierce came to college, captains consciously allowed themselves to be influenced...
...meeting to consider the advisability of forming a "University Club," Mr. W. R. Thayer stated that there was a feeling abroad that favoritism had been shown in selecting members of Harvard teams and crews in the past. Some of the Boston papers have made much of the statement. Mr. Watson and Mr. Bullard have recognized the existence of such feeling by declaring in print that there would be no favoritism in the choice of the crews this year. If there is the slightest ground for the charge that favoritism is prevalent in Harvard athletics, the older graduates should know that...
Again Grant advanced, this time massing his whole force on the west bank and getting supplies by the river. But Haines's Bluff had proved impregnable, and a landing on the south side was out of the question because supplies could not be brought down past the batteries...
...whole months Grant strained every nerve to find or make a water passage to out-flank Haines's Bluff, or get the transports past the batteries. It was all in vain. Canals were cut; bayous explored; passages forced through countless narrow channels; but to no purpose. The North was out of patience; the people clamored for Grant's removal...