Word: procession
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...complete history of Haverford cricket is in process of compilation. Haverford was the first American college to play the game...
Memoirs of the Museum of Comparative Zoology of Harvard College. 40 Volumes IX., XI., XIV., XVI., are now in process of publication in parts...
...remainder to become a part of the endowment fund. Mr. Marshall Field has given ten acres of land valued at $100,000, for the site of the university. This gift has more than met the requirements for a beginning and it is expected that buildings will be in process of construction before the money is all contributed. The land together with the subscriptions, make a sum total of over a million dollars. The value of the site is not to be included in the $400,000 to be raised, but form a separate fund by itself. Nearly $30,000 have...
...gains more in actual numbers than Harvard, it will always be behind." It would certainly be an agreeable spectacle to watch the delusive exultation of Yale at rolling up every year an enormous increase by percentage, Harvard meanwhile quietly outstripping her in actual increase. The explanation of such a process, however, would belong to the higher mathematics. And in point of fact it is the rate of gain which throws light upon the future. The number of men from the south and west rose from 44 in Harvard '91, to 49 in Harvard, '92; and at Yale in the same...
...account, took with him, drafting off into his own business, most of the best clerks and employees of the Co-operative, and turned most of the work of the Society over to new hands. No store or business house could stand that, you know. It means that the process of selection which has been going on for years under the superintendent, and which resulted in a pretty good set of employees, now redounds to the benefit of the superintendent's new private business; and it means that the thorough knowledge acquired of the routine of the Society's business...