Word: summer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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SPECIAL BULLETIN FOR REPAIRING.- Winter Overcoats and Ulsters repaired. Winter Suits pressed and repaired. Full Dress Suits pressed. Spring and Summer Suits dyed. Special attention given to cleaning and pressing, next to post-office. J. B. Brine, 8 Boylston street...
...densely in the distance, while the square shoulders of Memorial Hall push up into the sky on the right. Low in the middle distance is the cupola of Hemenway Gymnasinm, and further on a slender spire or two more. The whole thing is dreamy and soft and full of summer. "Elmwood" shows one side of Lowell's home with a view of the broad veranda, and in one corner a tall graceful aisle of pines "Pines of Elmwood." The etching of Longfellow's house is less original, merely giving the front view we know so well. Lastly there are "Morning...
...single illustration taken from the records at Harvard University. In the year 1880, seven hundred and seventy-six men were physically examined. The strongest man out of this number showed in strength of lungs, back, legs, chest and arms, a grand total of 675.2. At the close of the summer term of the present year, the highest strength test recorded was 1272.8 and there were over two hundred men in college whose total strength test surpassed the highest test of 1880. This general gymnasium work is, therefore, reducing the one-sided development once so common with athletic specialists. It must...
...proposition of "Bob" Cook that Yale, who is now at the top of the heap in boating matters, should go over to England this coming summer and row the winner in the Oxford-Cambridge race, might, if it was followed up earnestly, result advantageously to college boating in England and the United States. Any half-way attempt as, in case of our defeat, the sending of Yale across the Atlantic to row for this one season without any prospect of a renewal of the contest in after years, whould probably be profitless. But if an agreement between Yale and Harvard...
...across the water unless we defeated Harvard at New London in July, and any contest between our crew and an English university eight would hinge on the result of our annual battle with Harvard. Mr. Cook thinks that both Yale and Harvard could have defeated Cambridge this summer, if our English friends had come over here. We will have a pretty good crew this year, and I think that we could give a good account of ourselves if we went over to the old country. I am sure that the alumni would subscribe liberally, and that there would...