Word: roll
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Lost.- Roll of bills, containing $111. Return to Leavitt and Peirce. Ten dollars reward...
...informal reception was held Thursday night, and a collation served. John O. Sargent of the class of 1830, the oldest living graduate, read an original translation into English verse of the twenty-first ode of the first Book of Horace. Fifty new members were added to the club roll, bringing the total to about...
Considerable interest has been taken in a device invented by Irving Fisher, '88, for registering the strokes of oarsmen. A roll of paper is slightly unwound at each stroke. A pencil moves across it, and its varying motion corresponds to the varying strength of pull. The result of the paper movement and the pencil movement is a curve which faithfully reproduces the length, strength and peculiarities in each stroke...
...roll of paper is slightly unwound at each stroke. A pencil moves across it and its varying motion corresponds to the varying strength of pull. The result of the paper movement and the pencil movement is a curve which faithfully produces the length, strength, and peculiarities in each stroke. The article was written under the auspices of Robert Cooke, and contains cuts of the machine and specimens of curves, including the types of five of the Yale University crew - Caldwell, Stevenson, Stewart, Middlebrook, and Woodruff. Each has his own individualities. The uses of the contrivance were classified as follows...
...thought, would appreciate club-rooms where they might gather for social purposes. For graduates of Harvard living out of town it will also prove a great convenience, furnishing a place for them to drop in during their vitits to the city. Such non resident members are now on roll from the East and West as far as Dakota. With all the improvements, it has been determined to keep the dues low so that the club can be open to all Harvard men who wish to join it. The club is distinctly social, and was organized for such purposes...