Word: possessed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...decided best to have at least one run a week while the roads are practicable this fall, on some fixed day and time. Friday was considered a convenient day for such runs. The first few runs will be short and slow, in which all members of the University who possess machines are invited to join. It is proposed also, to have a Hare and Hounds run on bicycles in a week or two. The secretary will be at his room, 9 Thayer, every Wednesday, from 9 to 11 a.m., and from 9 to 10 on most other days, to receive...
...made at one or another of the great public schools. The conclusion that might be drawn from this change is that, so far as social confederations are concerned, a prominence and importance have been given to the preparatory schools in New England that they did not in other days possess.-Boston Herald...
...which seems to be the one destined for Harvard in athletic sports. The report of our defeats of last June, which are published today according to custom, open the wounds which were partly healed during the summer recess, and must awaken in the hearts of everyone who claims to possess any love for Harvard, serious thoughts as to the reason for our continued discomfiture. It is true, indeed, that athletics are not the main purpose of college life, but nevertheless, "Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well," and therefore, it shows a lamentable lack of determination...
...been neglected. Let us immediately take steps which will show that we are not entirely unconscious of the disgrace which the repetition of such an exhibition would bring upon the College. The lesson that we ought to learn from Wednesday night's experience, is, that we should either possess an efficient police force, whatever the expense, or have no celebration...
...began with an enumeration of the advantages which, Americans who study statistics possess. No European country has yet had the courage to take an industrial census upon the vast scale of the one of 1880 in the United States...