Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Annex is on Garden Street. You must not go there. Opposite the north end of the Yard are the Scientific School, which you must never mention, and the Gymnasium, the building which looks like a church. It is expected that this will be fitted up with apparatus some time before you leave college. A little farther to the east is Memorial Hall, the large building with a tower. To the north of this on - Street are the Divinity School and the Agassiz Museum; but if you wish to be in style, you will be entirely ignorant of their location...
...north of the Gymnasium are Holmes' and Jarvis Fields. You must always be able to tell what condition they are in. The little yellow building between them is the hospital. All new arrivals from foreign lands are kept there in quarantine for a time. The beautiful brown building on the left is occupied by a number of college societies, which are located near the hospital, so that men who are injured by initiations may be cared for at once. You will appreciate this advantage when you come to be initiated into the Pierian Sodality...
DEAR SIR, - The Yale University Boat Club do hereby challenge you, the Harvard University Boat Club, to an eight oared, four-mile race, straight away with coxswains, the time and place to be hereafter agreed upon...
...enable each table and each seat to be used twice over, if necessary. The hall will thus accommodate thirteen hundred persons, instead of six hundred and fifty, and so far from being more crowded than at present, will be much less so, as the number present at any one time will be much diminished. This plan is adopted at many of the dining-halls of the English universities, and is found to work very successfully. One breakfast, for instance, might be from seven o'clock until a quarter of eight, and the second breakfast from eight until nine or after...
...their exercise or to deprive themselves of the use of reference-books in the evening. If the hour were changed from five to four, probably the convenience of the largest number would be met; for where two persons wish to refer to the same book at the same time, the first who comes will get it, whether the hour be five or four, and where there is only one applicant, it makes no difference at what hour the book is taken out. The satisfactory management of the Library has rendered criticism of late unnecessary, and, in calling attention...