Word: saws
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...saw Memorial Hall, Sanders' Theatre, where the Greek plays were given and the dining-hall, in which are places for nearly five hundred. In the gymnasium we saw much wonderful apparatus, but we who had never visited Harvard before, could not help wishing that we could see some...
...Snow, from New Bedford, passed between the rock on which he was standing and Gooseberry neck. She was at the nearest point, from a quarter to half a mile away from him. Rupert made all the signals of distress that he could in his exhausted condition and Captain Snow saw them. But the Ridgeway had a deck load of empty barrels which the captain says would have been jeopardized if he attempted to lay to and lower a boat. And he passed on without any attempt to render assistance. Within a mile and a half of the rock upon which...
...July Century will print several hitherto unpublished letters of Emerson, written not long after he left college. In one he expresses the opinion that Greek authors should be read in the original, which he afterwards saw fit to change...
...better than the freshman crew of last year. Up to Wednesday last they had been using the '83 class boat, which was not rigged to suit them at all, and the crew was not very well placed in the boat. Mr. Jasper Goodwin took hold of them that afternoon, saw what was the matter, and on returning to the boat house at once made arrangements for the fitting up of last year's freshman boat to suit the present crew, at the same time making some changes in the position of the men. Since then they have done much better...
...college life. Just before ten A. M., when the chapel bell would call us from the Continental, Girard, and other neighboring billiard saloons (the university was then on Ninth street, above Chestnut,) we would proceed to Vansant's, then Ninth and Chestnut, for the almonds. One day I saw there a smooth, tempting looking fruit; I ate one of them. It was hot-house, bran new and good. The cost was $1.50. Since then I price before eating...