Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...which there is temporarily advanced out of the College General Fund about $7,500 per year. To meet these wants and perpetuate the work to which Phillips Brooks gave so much of his strength during the last twelve years, requires about $300,000, a small sum for those who saw what he did and admired its spirit...
Tuesday morning the men saw the city. In the afternoon Mrs Pruyn gave a tea and there was a ball at the Delavan House after the concert. At 1.20 A.M. the special sleeper was attached to a mail train and the club were hurried away from Albany, each man bearing a special delivery stamp and addressed to the Dean, U. 5. As they were considered first class mail matter every effort was made to get them here as nearly as possible on time and early morning found them at Cambridge somewhat the worse for wear but willing to be sent...
...saw the condition of the negroes of the South after the war should see it now, he would see what a marvelous advance has been made. They have improved in every way and this especially in their homes...
...Charles E. Courtney, trainer of the Cornell crew, first saw the aluminum shell constructed by Mr. Galanaugh, the Philadelphia boat builder, at the Newark regatta. He was so pleased with the new style of shell that he highly recommended it to the Cornell crew. They finally decided to interview the maker. Galanaugh felt so positive he could build a boat at least ten seconds faster than one constructed of either paper or cedar, that he agreed to build an eight oared shell at his own expense, on condition that if it does not fulfil his claims, the crew need...
...writes: "The handwriting begins to show age, - it is tro+++mutous, and the letters are writ large. Death only could extinguish the kindly thought, the fine sense of humor, the affectionate fidelity to the past and its ties; nothing had changed in him to the last. When last I saw him .... I could imagine that, he labored under his dispensations as a good ship in a storm. burying his head at times under a wave, but rising to it, shaking off the weight, and keeping...