Word: summer
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...received an injury in a scrimmage against the second team, which kept me out of active work during the remaining times that I was on the field. The ultimate cause of my withdrawal was due, not to this, but to a former injury resulting from an accident of last summer, and from which I had supposed myself recovered. This injury had not interfered with the lighter work in the first part of the season, but began to tell on me increasingly as the work became heavier, impeding agility of movement and making greater the danger of another and permanent injury...
Professor Bateson is a distinguished English writer and lecturer on heredity, and has the reputation of being a very enthusiastic and entertaining speaker. He came to this country to attend the International Zoological Conference held in Boston last summer, and has been Stillman Lecturer at Yale this fall. Professor Bateson is about to return to England...
...tablets were put in place on the walls of the Chapel during the past summer. The bronze tablet to Henry Ware, presented by his descendants, has been placed in the north wall at the left of the pulpit. It bears a bas-relief of Henry Ware on the upper half and the dates "1794-1843." Below is the inscription: "Henry Ware Junior. Parkman Professor of Pulpit Eloquence and the Pastoral Care...
...George has devoted much of his time to the study of social conditions, especially of children. For five years, beginning with 1890, he spent his summers in Fresh Air Fund work for children, taking from 200 to 300 boys and girls each year to Freeville, New York. In the summer of 1894 he tried certain principles of self-support and self-government for children with so much success that it was decided to carry on the summer work in the future on these principles. In September, 1895, five boys remained with Mr. George and the Republic began its permanent work...
...profits of the year's business have been sufficient, after making due allowance for depreciation, and after defraying the cost of the extensive alterations made in the Society's store during the summer, to pay the eight per cent, dividend and leave substantial amount for addition to the Society's surplus...