Word: plainly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Third ten of Institute of 1770. W. S. Spaulding, Boston; H. W. Plummer, New Bedford; A. P. Butler, Jamaica Plain; G. H. Hopkins, Jamaica Plain; H. D. Cheever, New York; H. D. Hale, Roxbury; J. W. Wood, So. Orange, N. J.; W. B. deBillier, Yonkers, N. Y.; Chas. M. Cabot, Brookline; K. F. Crocker, Fitchburg...
...department has attempted by a new system of reckoning to bridge the difficulty. It is now determined that those juniors who have elected composition courses instead of writing the junior themes, shall write a thesis which shall equal in length the combined six themes. Of course it is very plain that it is easier to read and correct one long theme than it is to correct several short ones, aggregating the same length. Thus the affair is settled, and will, of course, prove highly successful...
...building in Cambridge has sheltered so many people of eminence, probably, as has the plain wooden structure which stands at the entrance to the yard near the Bursars office. Wadsworth House is the oldest building in Cambridge, and is in fact a venerable patriarch, dating its foundation in the year 1726, if we are able to believe the report. The venerable elm which overtops the roof of Wadsworth House was set out by President Willard, and not until sixty years after the completion of the house...
...College on class day, known as the "Presentation of the Lemon Squeezer." "This custom, it need hardly be said, is peculiar to Trinity, and, as the 'Lemon Squeezer' of class day is something not met with in every day life, a word of description is pertinent. It is a plain piece of mechanism, devoid of much ornamentation. It is revered and prized, not so much for its intrinsic value as for the memories which cluster around it, and are, upon auspicious occasions, squeezed out of it! The material used in its construction is chiefly pine board, relieved at its further...
...into proper shape for the race. The work then will be hard, the four-mile course having to be covered at least twice a day, besides the running, walking and indoor work. There will be no system of diet, the men being given as much as they want of plain, substantial food. The stroke rowed by the Columbias is long and steady, with a sharp, wuick recovery, which will send their boat through the water at a high rate of speed. The average weight is fully eight pounds heavier last year's crew...