Word: sand
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...planned to make a quadrangle of the library, Divinity Hall, and at some future date of a chapel which will be to the southeast of Divinity. The woods to the east will complete the square. The new library building is to be of red brick with brown sand stone trimmings, and will contain four lecture rooms, a stack which will hold 40,000 volumes, and a reading room with a large open fire place, thus adding much to the comfort of the readers. The building will cost about $40,000 when completed and will supply a want of which students...
...Harvard nine is in daily practice. They have an ample cage to practice in where they "slug" bars sand-filled, and go through the other mysteries of "throw us a catch, Jimmy;" * * * Their battery, with few exceptions, remains unchanged. Phillips, last year's 3rd base in now captain, vice Beman resigned. Smith, (olim second base) is pitcher; his forte is "drops and curves." * * * The same men are on the crew this year, except Penrose and Starron. Mumford is captain, vice Storm resigned. - Harvard athletics in Cornell...
...school room, and many other such practical ways. The teachers make tours with the pupils in the surrounding country, map in hand, and thus the meaning of the various geographical signs used on the maps is almost plastically impressed upon them. Such devices as making relief maps of sand and drawing charts of given districts are resorted to in no small measure. Gradually a wider view of the world's geography is given them, but without that ridiculous heaping of dry facts and statistics so common in our teaching. The brain is not loaded down with long lists of names...
...whole, everything seems to be tending to a good freshman nine. The men are thoroughly imbued with a spirit of work and are regular in their attendance at exercise. On Thursdays and Saturday's the men play hand ball in the cage in squads of four, and bat the sand bags. On the other week days the chest weights and dumb bells are used. On Wednesdays all the candidates take a long walk. Every day a fast quarter mile is taken on the track in the gymnasium...
...following books will be used in French during this half-year: Marroussia by Stahl, Marianne, by George Sand, Audromague by Racine, Horace by Corneille, L'Avare, by Moliere. Second book of La Fontaine's fables...