Word: thought
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...feet by 2.36 feet deep, and cost about $30.000. The sum of the subscriptions up to date is $130,000. which leaves $100,000 for the building. More than this will, however, be probably spent, as the building, as designed, will cost about $150,000, but it is thought the deficiency can be made up by next fall. The building will be three stories in height, with a high studded basement. Particular attention is to be paid to the sanitary arrangement, the idea being to have the building the most perfect of its kind in America. The outside will probably...
...meeting this week of the directors of the club which has been known as the Economical Club and the University club, it was decided to again change the name. In view of the fact that the club is to occupy the Foxcroft house it is thought appropriate that it should be known as the Foxcroft Club. The organization is in a flourishing condition. The finance committee reported that over fourteen hundred dollars had been raised by subscription; this sum will be sufficient to fit up the house as intended. The house committee also made a very favorable report, which...
...William Lawrence conducted a brief but impressive service of worship, after which Justin Winsor, librarian of the University, delivered an appropriate historicol address. This address was a model of its kind, the latter half of it being especially admirable, Seldom is an address heard in which the thought is so compact, and so clearly and forcibly expressed. In fifteen minutes Mr. Winsor covered the ground which a great many orators would have spent two hours in travering, and he left a clearly defined impression of what the character of Washington has meant to him upon the minds...
...inter scholastic leagues of base ball and foot ball have been organized. It is for the purpose of carrying out this idea that the interscholastic race was given a place in the programme. Bicycling is a form of contest which requires long training for proficiency, and it was thought that the future standard might be raised by inducing men to begin to train before coming to college...
...Sherrill, '89, ought to win both the one hundred and two hundred and twenty yard dashes, with Lee of Harvard, second in the former, and Moen, of Harvard second in the latter. Although Wells of Harvard won the quarter mile last year, and Dohm of Princewas third, it is thought that Dohm will win this year. Dohm also has a good chance for the half-mile, with Church of Pennsylvania second. Harmar, '90, should win the mile run; Davenport of Harvard will probably take second place. Mapes of Columbia will win both hurdle races. Williams, '90, will probably be second...