Word: reaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...often. The same aspirations for the world of books and for an education animate them that animate you, but in their case, let me tell you, the obstacles to be overcome are vastly greater. Of the Schavic people, I am told, you know but little, and but meagre accounts reach you. I am not to tell you of the struggle going on over our vast Empire. The universities are a peculiar battleground for this struggle. It is here that your Western ideas, and your philosophies, and above all, your example, touch our worn-out Sclav institutions and our State...
...clip the following from the American Aquatic Magazine: "What grander sight for a man to look upon can one enjoy than two fours or eights; the crews in proper form and well trained; rowing in time, with proper reach and grip; a clean pull through the water, feather without ripple; and, above all, good execution, or the knowledge of just when to apply the power while the blade of the oar is in the water. We cannot better illustrate this than by referring to the Yale crew of 1883. A more magnificent body of men physically never...
...most crying need of the students is more dormitories near or in the college yard by which they may be within easy reach of all the buildings, and also be free from the extortion practised by Cambridge boarding-house keepers, whose prices rise year by year as they see each freshman class larger than the last, more than ever at their mercy from want of sufficient accommodations under college rule. The most pressing need of the college, according to the president's report, is more unencumbered money for running expenses. The treasurer's report states that the percentage of returns...
...felt that by publishing the article in question we could in any way advance the interests of the Echo's female contributors, we should not hesitate to do so; but we fear that said contributors, if any such remain, are by this time quite beyond our reach. For ourselves, we have no female contributors; but if we may flatter ourselves that we have any readers among the fair sex, we take great pleasure in informing them of the existence of this school, and shall be happy to furnish them with further information by mail...
...receipts of Girard College for eleven months of this year reach nearly $430,000. The institution is educating 1098 orphans...