Word: rolled
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arrow head was imbedded two third of an inch. Friday another was discovered and Saturday six were unearthed, of which five were in one group. The five were apparently a warrior, his squaw and three papooses. Near by there was found a portion of an earthen vessel and a roll of copper. The solitary skeleton was about six feet from the group. Under the skull was a number of beads and wampum strings. The skeletons were not more than twelve or fourteen inches under ground. Nearly all were lying on the right side, with knees drawn up to the chin...
...faculty under whose regulations they labor with difficulty. If the tone of Harvard is today one of indifference, and if that has been brought about by the chain of events as I have related, let there be a sudden check, and the whole system will commence to roll in another direction. A sudden and energetic in ignorating needs to be wrought upon the whole athletic atmosphere of the college, where the interference of the faculty has been only too keenly reflected by the indifference of the students. That change must bring it straight before the students that athletics...
...perfect attendance at lectures has been tried and has been found wanting-let the obslete theory rest in its grave. The present method seems ta satisfy the parties most interested in its success-why not leave it alone? The further recommendation of "making attendance at daily prayers, or at roll call, for those who do not wish to attend prayers, compulsory," is a relic of the illiberal spirit which was already on the wane twenty years ago; a spirit which it would ill become a university like Harvard to adopt...
...overseers voted to request the committee on government "to consider and report promptly to the board upon the advisability of making attendance at daily prayers, or at roll-call, for those who do not wish to attend prayers, compulsory; also upon the advisability of making attendance upon recitations and lectures compulsory, and to report whether in their opinion any further action is necessary in regard to the general rules affecting discipline and studies in the university; and it was also voted to request the dean of the faculty to aid them with reports of attendance at college exercises...
...added to last year's list, the most important of which are those of the Latin, Greek, English and French departments. An extensive physical laboratory was built during the summer for the higher classes in physics. The names of two new instructors have been added to last year's roll-Mr. J. R. Wheeler in the Greek department, and Mr. F. C. Huntington in Political Economy...