Word: reaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bumping" races that occur at this time are thus described by the same writer: Though the pleasure is largely dependent on genial sky and favorable breezes there is something very alluring to strangers in the series of struggles to be witnessed in the Gut, the Plough and the Long Reach, from the vantage-ground of Grassy Corner or Ditton Meadows. Long lines of eager young gownsmen, each in the bright uniform of his college club, rush panting up the tow-path, uttering a babel of discordant but exhilarating cries of encouragement to their champions on the water...
...degrees at the age of nineteen, and it is found that the annual change of Pound84 is sufficient to cover all expenses of college and university life. The college comprises students of all denominations. Its educational success is proved by the facts that twenty-six of its members have reached the B. A. degree (twelve of them in honors) and three the M. A. degree, and that there are now eighty-four students in residence. The low charge of Pound84 per annum was of course calculated to pay only with a considerable number of students. Hence in the early years...
Professor Trowbridge was expected to reach New York yesterday by the White Star steamer Brittanic...
...these it hopes to receive in the near future. "It may be said with some confidence that a fund of one-tenth the size of that represented by the property and endowments of Harvard University, contributed to the society now, will give women greater privileges than are within their reach in America, and will make them permanent...
...addition to this there are other advantages here that can be found nowhere else in this country. Our library is unequalled on the continent for educational purposes, and, besides, a student is within easy reach of the Boston public and the Athenaeum libraries. A prominent professor remarked to one of his sections last year that he considered the library equal in working power to the entire faculty...