Word: summer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Faulty construction: not having the summer, which had to carry the bulk of the load, rest firmly on the pile; not fastening the pile to the other parts of the structure, and not sinking the pile firmly into the gravel...
...diagonal support in such a way that any pressure on it tended to push the pile out from under the stringers. This could have been remedied by fastening the support rigidly to the pile by bolts or straps of iron, or by fastening the pile directly to the summer...
Several members of the lacrosse team have signed their names as candidates for the amateur lacrosse twelve which will make a trip to England next summer...
More than once during the recent discussion on the value of classical training have we wondered why the most important contribution in the defense of the cause of the ancient languages has been overlooked. Mr. Adams' speech last summer merely re-opened an old question which has been troubling the minds of the educators of all countries for some years past. This question will probably come up again and again in the future, as it has in the past. This will be particularly the case in this country. Where a people are so devoted to business pursuits...
...library of Columbia College is to be open evenings and lighted by electricity. When we consider that the great bulk of the work here is done in the evening, and that any influence tending to keep men from spending their afternoons in open air exercise during the spring and summer months is greatly to be regretted,-we cannot but feel that one of the greatest possible benefits to college life and college work would be the opening of our library at night. We hope some friend of the college will find it in his heart to give the money needed...