Word: putting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...broad improvement, however, which underlies all changes of detail, is, that without regard to the efficiency of those details, a determined effort has been made to put all members of the class upon a basis of equlity. In past years many Seniors have felt, rightly or wrongly, that they had little voice in the selection of their class day officers. Hence the unfortunately small attendance at the election meetings. This year there is certainly no foundation for such indifference, and if there is not a full vote polled today, the result will be most disappointing. For this chief purpose, several...
...library has just put a very interesting map of Boston and vicinity at the head of the stairs leading to the reading room. It gives the original bounds of Boston in red lines, and shows what a large part of the present city is built on redeemed land...
...into squads of ten to twelve men each and temporary squad leaders were appointed. The work yesterday consisted of fifteen minutes light exercise in the Gymnasium, followed by a slow run of half a mile. Rowing will begin as soon as the machines in the rowing room can be put in order, which will probably be in a day or two. Twelve more men joined the squad in addition to those whose names have already been published, making 165 in all. They were...
...much to be regretted that Mr. Lehmann has been put to the trouble of making the statement which appears this morning. No better example could be found of the absurd extremity to which the newspaper interviewing nuisance is carried than the persistency with which Mr. Lehmann has been badgered for opinions on all sorts of subjects, whether or not connected with his work at Harvard. In the present instance the "quotation" has even less than the usually slight foundation of truth, being gracefully manufactured to order...
...board running track for winter training has just been put down and in a few days will be connected with the back door of the Gymnasium by a plank walk. Owing to the building of the hand-ball courts it was impossible to put the track behind the Gymnasium where it was last year so it has been laid just back of the Jefferson Physical Laboratory. The length of the track is exactly one-eight of a mile instead of being seven yards short of one-seventh, the length of the old track...