Word: quartered
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...realize how far they walk every day about college, simply performing their regular duties. A man hardly realizes when he goes to breakfast at Memorial from his room in Holyoke, or Little's block, that he walks over a quarter of a mile, yet such is the fact. If we compare the distances we are accustomed to walk about college with some well-known unit, we can better realize how much they all amount to. Let us take, for instance, the blocks on Fifth avenue, New York. They number twenty to the mile. Taking these blocks, then, as a standard...
House, is a distance of three and a half blocks, and the nearest rooms to that most used, recitation and lecture hall, are more than a block away. To chapel from Beck Hall is fully four. When a man in Little's Block wishes to exercise, he walks a quarter of a mile to the gymnasium, and if it is summer, a half mile to the tennis courts on Jarvis field. Of all the dormitories Thayer Hall is the most centrally located. From it are the shortest distances to Appleton Chapel, Memorial Hall, and Sever. It is close...
...signs himself "A Member of the Historical Society," ends his communication by saying that "whatever can be done to retain the seats in Sever for the grown up people shall be done." It was painfully evident to every student who came to the last lecture later than a quarter past seven, that this rule had not been enforced, unless, indeed, we class the students themselves as infants. As a rough guess, I should say that nearly a quarter of the seats in the hall were occupied by boys from the Cambridge schools, probably, some of whom, to judge by their...
...filament are easily destroyed, and there is more or less danger of fire on account of the amount of power used, which requires the larger wire to convey the electric fluid. The best carbon is the cylinder carbon, which has a much greater illuminating surface and consumes only one quarter as much power as the filament carbon, and gives four fold the amount of light for the same power, requiring at the same time a very small wire, thereby avoiding all danger from fire. It is fifty percent. cheaper than the gas that is being used in Cambridge at this...
...Louis, who ran a good second to Baker in the quarter mile run, Wednesday night, is a member of the H. A. A., being a second year medical student...