Word: realing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...walking squad exercises but little down stairs; pulling on the weights and going through a few movements with the light dumb bells. The real work comes on the track upstairs. The distance walked vary from day to day according to the speed at which they are covered...
...atmosphere of art in the classic surburb is about as bleak as a Dekota blizzard. The studios are few and the visitors fewer, and the pictures in the magazines, we are told, are about all the Cantabs have to talk about. As for music, this correspondent says the real appreciative lover of music doesn't abound there, and the occasional Symphony concerts in Sanders Theatre are attended only for form's sake. It's lucky for this correspondent that hazing has gone by in Cambridge; otherwise Pericles and Aspasia would take him out and hold him under a pump nozzle...
...real science of the tug-of-war was yet to come, however. In 1882 the belt was introduced, by means of which the strain on the rope was made constant, and could be increased permanently at the will of either anchor. At present it is the object of both teams to drop as quickly as possible, the best teams giving a heave as they go down, and gaining several inches thereby. There are two ways of lying on the ropes, but all Harvard men pull with one leg across the rope, and the body resting on one side. The back...
...Spring-field Hospital is residuary legatee and will receive $75,000, and the local public library will have $30,000 on the death of Mr. Merrick's aunt, Mrs, A. D, Briggs, who is to have the income of that sum during her life. Thirty thousand dollars in real estate is given outright to the Springfield Home for Friendless Women and Children, and $15,000 more on the death of another beneficiary. Five thousand dollars goes to Harvard College to be used in assisting worthy students, descendants of the class of 1870, to which the testator belonged, being preferred...
...manner of employing such an amount of money. If this million and a half had been given to some of the struggling universities in the West or with it a new one had been founded out there where the advantages are fewer it strikes us that more real good might have been accomplished. As it is, within a few miles of the place in which the new Clark University is to be founded, stand two of the oldest and largest universities in the country; and within a surrounding territory not larger than some single western states which has no good...