Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...summary of students shows, among "professional students and resident graduates," a total of exactly 300; undergraduates, 361, divided among the four classes as follows : Seniors, 92; juniors, 69; sophomores, 101, and freshmen, 99. Of these 256 were from Massachusetts, 27 from New York, the rest scattering. James Walker at this time was president of the university, and among the overseers appear the names of Samuel Hoar and Emory Washburn. Professors Parsons and Washburn then had charge of the Law School. Among the professors of the present day whose names appear in this catalogue are O. W. Holmes, Asa Gray...
Mary Anderson has profited immensely by her summer rest at Long Branch, her rides, and yachting. At the end of last season she gave evident signs of hard work, but she has entered upon the winter's duty looking the very picture of good health. She is a stronger favorite with the theatre-going public than ever, and the prospect is that at no time in her career has she made more money than she will this season. - [Progress...
...request Captain Hammond then spoke and explained Harvard's position in relation to the recent difficulty with Columbia. His explanation and that of Mr. Bancroft, who spoke subsequently, was essentially the same as the one contained in the Crimson. The difficulty seems to rest on the misunderstanding as to whether Harvard or Columbia was to have had the privilege of naming the hour as well as the day of the race. Harvard refused to row at the hour set by Columbia. Consequently, according to the distinct understanding of the Harvard crew, by mutual consent it was decided that the race...
...except members of the crew has been allowed to see it and all information in regard to it has been kept profoundly secret. Under-classmen have refrained from talking about it lest they might become disliked. A portion of the boat-house has been divided off from the rest by a partition and a very small door with a very large lock has been an eye-sore to inquisitive visitors at the boat-house. During the last week an unpleasant looking bulldog with his ponderous jaws ajar, each available space of which bristled with a tooth, has made his lair...
...management has been eminently satisfactory. To have the pleasure of leaving college as the captain of a championship nine snatched from him so suddenly, after he has played upon it so long and so well, is surely the bitterest of disappointments. But of one thing he can rest assured, that Harvard will never forget the good work he has done...