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Word: roof (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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ROPE CLIMBING.C. M. Saville, '89; A. E. Sterne, '87, and C. E. Curry, '89, were entered in this event. Saville's strength failed him and he was unable to reach the roof of the gymnasium. Sterne got an early start, and climbed well. Curry used his body with good effect, and won the cup. His record was 20 4-5 seconds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Third Winter Meeting. | 4/4/1887 | See Source »

...used for a boxing and fencing room and a room for the director of athletics. The gymnasium proper occupies the remainder of the floor, and covers a space fifty-six by ninety-seven feet. The room is spanned by trusses, which serve, in addition to carrying the roof, to support the gymnastic apparatus, such as ladders, trapezes, rings, etc., besides the running track, which is suspended from them, and is twenty laps to the mile. The small rooms on this floor have ceilings level with the bottom of the running track, the space above being used to form belvideres...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Note and Comment. | 2/22/1887 | See Source »

...benefit of his own countrymen. A beginning has already been made. The kindness of the Philadelphia students and the untiring efforts of Professor Ware brought together for the rendering of the Acharnians in November last such an audience as the old Academy of Music never before sheltered under its roof From that performance and subscriptions since received, a few thousands are already in the treasury of the permanent fund. The colleges appeal for final success to the wider circle of their friends in the same spirit of faith which of itself, and in results already splendid. is a sufficient guarantee...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The American School at Athens. | 2/2/1887 | See Source »

Several persons who passed along Harvard Street under the roof of the Porcellian Club building came near being dangerously hurt by the falling ice, which was being shovelled off from the roof, without any notice of warning to the passers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 1/19/1887 | See Source »

...fourth topic, it is true, but we can work up the first one next week. That is what we call progressive reading. If "'88" does his topic reading that way, we do not wish to imitate him. Rear backwards! You might as well begin a house by setting the roof, or sit down at whist and lear out before the cards are all dealt around...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HISTORY 13 AGAIN. | 12/2/1886 | See Source »

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