Word: power
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...whether they are the best men to represent her or not. We hope this most interesting department of athletics may be given more prominence another year, with the addition of leaping and throwing contests; and that Harvard. if she does anything, will at least do the best in her power...
...public interest which the Magenta is called to notice, is the death of the HON BENJAMIN R. CURTIS. Few of her sons have done more to reflect honor upon our Alma Mater than this eminent and distinguished jurist. His fame was national. The early promise he gave of great power and success in the profession he had chosen was more than fulfilled by what he achieved. The characteristics of his mind were clearness of apprehension, power of analysis, and breadth of comprehension, by which he mastered every subject submitted for his examination in all its parts and relations...
...committee of five be appointed to prepare and print, at the expense of the Committee of Fifty, a complete record of the services of Students and Graduates of Harvard University in the Army and Navy of the United States during the War of the Rebellion, the Committee to have power to employ an editor...
...Power, not out, . . . 5 b. Dwight...
...crew is ever so strong that it can afford to dispense with substitutes in case of accidents. With a crew of new men, such as the Sophomores have been obliged to put forward as representing the rowing power of their class, a second crew is an absolute necessity. Without it, if the present six (which is now in very good trim) loses a man, they will have to take into the boat another, perfectly raw and untrained, and it will be not only his rowing which will injure the crew, but the disheartening knowledge that their progress has been stopped...