Word: takings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...known whether Willard will play to-day or not. His knee is still very lame and swollen. Henshaw will probably play right field. If Willard does not play, Choate will probably take his place at first base...
...general question of the study of English in colleges, and just what place it should take in any scheme of liberal education, is an important one, which the course now entered upon by Harvard will help greatly to solve. For our own part, we would not for a moment underestimate the claims of a so-called classical training; but we can not help thinking that if anything is to be sacrificed it should not be English. - Boston Post...
...paid any dues for a period varying from two to four years; not a single one of these had signed the new constitution, and many of them, by their admission, had not even signed the old one. It was a knowledge of this fact which induced me to take such a decided stand in refusing to read my report to the meeting. I regarded myself as having been elected by the Union to perform certain duties in connection with its meetings, and had I yielded to the dictation of a body of men who did not legally constitute the Union...
...services at the decoration of the tablets in Memorial Hall, by Charles Beck Post 56, G. A., will take place on the morning of Memorial Day, Monday, May 30th, at 8 o'clock. The services will include a short oration commemorative of the Harvard men who fell in the late war. The address will be delivered by George F. Piper, a graduate of Harvard and a comrade of Post 56. The students of Harvard are most cordially invited to be present on the occasion. It is hoped that the Harvard men of the present generation, proud of the record...
...whom the applications come are said by the secretary to be of the most earnest and and industrious class. They are, many of them, country boys accustomed to hard work add patient efforts. Several of them are ready to go back into the field and swing the scythe or take care of horses and cattle. One is prepared by past experience to act as fireman on a locomotive, or conductor on a horse car. Another has been a conductor on a Pullman car and would like to be again, and a third wishes to be a clerk on a steamboat...