Word: retainable
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...government of this republic has granted the exclusive privilege to the University of excavating and exploring all ruins and mounds in the State. Permission has also been obtained to retain one-half of all objects discovered...
...French novelist was, by the description of exterior features to bring about in the reader the effect of the antecedents of which this feature is the consequent. But as two persons are unlikely to be affected in the same way by a phase of life, the novelist to retain a leadership was obliged to seek novelty, what is rare and curious. He soon turned to the abnormal and deformed and entrenched himself there. The process is a psychological one and English writers have followed it with the difference that instead of making the reader psychologist, they act before his eyes...
Since, however, the Intercollegiate Association has decided to retain the tug-of-war, but one thing remains for Harvard to do. She must set to work and train the best team possible for the Mott Haven games. Captain Moen has not yet decided exactly how he will go to work; but he has the one idea that we must send a strong team to the intercollegiate games...
...foot ball team, the receipts came mostly from subscriptions; $623 was subscribed, while the games only brought $160. With the nine, on the contrary, the amount of the gate money was $512, and only $348 had to be raised by subscription. Both teams were allowed to retain $50; beyond this the eleven handed over $5.10 to the graduate treasurer, and the nine $14.59. The eleven's expenses amounted to $727, the larger items being $342 for games, $136 for training table, and $168 for outfits. The expenses of the nine were $866, consisting mainly of $415 for games...
...announced in a recent DAILY CRIMSON, a recent gift to the museum of $30,000 for the foundation of a fellowship has been presented by Mrs. Mary Copley Thaw who has specified that the first holder of the fellowship shall be Miss Fletcher; and that she shall retain it as long as she lives and carries on her work among the Indians. This establishes for the first time in Harvard University a fellowship for a woman. The fellowship is also to go to Miss Fletcher's successor, to be used in philanthropic and scientific work among the North American Indians...