Word: rocks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...established. Learning was valued, but it was valued for this end. Never was there a system more clearly conceived, more definitely limited, than that New England Puritanism. The great world of humanity lay around it unfelt, unregarded. The secular world was absorbed, was ignored or denounced. Like a rock in a great sea, rising upon its own foundations, beaten upon by waves of which it took no manner of account. So stands the Puritanism of the seventeenth century; so Harvard College which it built in the midst of the multifarious and restless history...
...stop a boat very much, the main inconvenience being the difficulty one has in rowing his oar. About three-eighths of a mile from the start, on the west side of the river, there is a large, prominent boulder, stretching out from the shore, which is familiarly known as "Rock." The crews are always timed from the start up to this point, and it has become almost as important as any one of the half-mile flags...
...stated meeting of the Board of Overseers held yesterday morning at 70 Water St., Boston, Hon. E. Rock-wood Hoar presiding. No one of the special committees were ready to report, and the meeting was adjourned to April 22, when reports on the religious services in the college and religious needs of the University, on the requisites for admission to the college, on the present Elective system, and on the system of voluntary attendance at recitations will be presented...
...fact, however, that the disturbance following the "Flood Rock" explosion made itself felt through the delicate apparatus at the observatory, and was carefully observed by Prof. Rogers and his assistants. As our local experiments in explosiology are supposed to have brought into prominence this branch of science, a description of the apparatus used by Prof. Rogers, seems of interest. A cup of Mercury is placed either directly upon the earth or upon a stone shaft which rests on bed rock. Upon the surface of the Mercury is thrown the image of illuminated pin holes in a metal card...
...gold from the earth was soon superseded by the "cradle." The requiring men to work together occasioned the system of "partnership" which has become so celebrated in song and story. Some lonely miners made some profit by using a knife in cutting the gold from the crevices of rock where the water of the brooks had washed it. This crevice-mining afforded a very precarious living, and these solitary miners became very dangerous members of society. Very few Indians were hired by the miners. The Brooks party of Eastermens on the way to the mining districts, found little trouble from...