Word: things
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...drowning cases, the first thing to do is to empty the lungs, mouth and nostrils of water. The tongue should then be drawn out. It is best to hold the tongue with a handkerchief that it may not slip, or to push a twig or hair pin through it and let that keep the tongue from falling back. Take off all the clothes to the waist, then place the body on its back and begin a circular motion with the arms on lines parallel to the body, thus expanding and contracting the chest. Do this at the rate of about...
...Columbia Spectator thinks that it would be a good thing for the Harvard freshmen to accept the challenge of the Yale '89 crew to an eight-oared boat race. Comment is unnecessary...
...Society of Christian Brethren, which by the way was one of the four oldest societies of Harvard College, is "now a thing of the past." Founded in 1802. its life has extended over eighty-four years. This life was ended by the vote which we announced yesterday. In next year's Index will be found the list of some eighty or a hundred men, headed, not "The Christian Brethren," but "The Harvard Young Men's Christian Association." The change in name and in constitution has been made, we understand, after much consideration and debate...
...consistency and coherence to our services. Then too a man like Dr. Peabody, as has been seen, could, in his position, exercise a very strong and beneficial influence over the students. So we are glad to learn of this first step of our Overseers; and trust that the next thing will be the granting of our petition...
...Conference Committee met yesterday, and confered. The attendance was small, and the business transacted was of little importance, although subjects of deepest interest were brought up for discussion. The resolution regarding the maintenance of good order in the yard is the only thing that, as far as we can see, gives the meeting of yesterday any value. The subject of cribbing, as the votes given on our first page will show, was treated in a very unsatisfactory and unbusinesslike way. Such conduct of business hardly speaks for the dignity of the committee. It should be said that the progress...