Word: rates
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...wages for an engineer. As a matter of fact we had the engineer from May 6th to July 6th inclusive. For a good man for a short job you must pay good wages. It is the poorest sort of economy, with a complicated Herreschoff engine, to engage a second rate engineer. As a matter of economy I should advise hiring the best man to be had, even if were necessary to pay him half as much again as we paid our engineer last spring...
...while the water is there 600 feet deep. Great pieces of ice continually break off with a loud noise, and these icebergs cover the surrounding inlets. The motion of this mass was from 65 to 72 feet per day in places, and the whole moved at an average rate of 40 feet per day about the same as the Greenland glaciers. The erosion of these glaciers is very great. It is calculated that the sub-glacial streams lower a surface of 1,200 square miles-one-third of an inch each year...
...seems to me that these objects might be attained as well in some other way, without the danger of a classmate's being injured for life. At any rate, abolish...
...seats for the Friday evening concert in Sanders Theatre are being disposed of at a very rapid rate...
...standing jump, and in pole vaulting, cups to be awarded the winners. This would, perhaps, bring out some new men and would develop the existing material for the team which goes into training after Xmas. The plan has been tried at Yale with considerable success, and would at any rate raise the standard of our own athletics...