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Word: rapids (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1870-1879
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...have received a communication, unfortunately crowded out of this issue, treating of the historic landmarks of Cambridge, and deploring their rapid destruction. In connection with this we are sorry to learn that a movement is on foot to cut down those graceful old elms on Brattle Street, which formerly overshadowed the shop of that village smithy whom our Cambridge poet has so sweetly made famous. It is perhaps useless to expect that the influence of professors or students will be effective on an unbridled and Port-pampered government; we can only invoke the aid of the equally unbridled public opinion...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/28/1876 | See Source »

...reference and study, it was proposed, about five years ago, to enlarge Gore Hall, but through lack of funds the project was abandoned for the time. At length it has become absolutely necessary to make some addition to the stacking room, as the increase of volumes has been very rapid within the last few years, many of the books coming from the bequests of Charles Sumner and Dr. Walker. Under the present librarian, who was appointed assistant in 1825 and again in 1841, and in 1856 was appointed librarian, the number of volumes has increased from...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE NEW LIBRARY. | 11/26/1875 | See Source »

...question had been inflicted upon us a few hundred times we began to look with admiration upon the peculiar advantages derived from a change of magenta to crimson, and it was a source of unalloyed pleasure to us to think of the committee that had been appointed and the rapid measures that they had taken toward deciding the true color. However, one experience of this kind is quite sufficient, and we earnestly hope and pray that before the next regatta takes place, one shade, and only one, shall be selected and decided upon as Harvard's color. This could easily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/15/1875 | See Source »

...rapid rushes down the mountain side...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROMSDAL, - 1874. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...rapid rushes on, but now its shout...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROMSDAL, - 1874. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

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