Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fall races at Lake Saltonstall, October 14, the six-oared race between the class crews was won by '77, time 13: 27 1/4; the single-scull race was easily won by Livingston in 16:02 1/4; the six-oared race between the Academic and Scientific Freshmen was won by the former in 14: 07; the four-oared shell-race between...
...Senior class met yesterday afternoon, and decided upon the following preliminary arrangements for the election of Class and Class-Day officers. It was agreed that the meeting of the class should be called for Wednesday, November 1st; that nominations for the various offices should be made at any time on or before Monday, October 30th, to C. M. Barnes, Matthews 39, chairman of a committee on nominations, consisting of four members, - one each from the different portions of the class. Nominations must be signed by at least one member of the Senior class...
...instructor or student is exempt from this condition of our mental and nervous constitution, to judge of a man's year's work by three hours' work of a brain which, acted on by many causes, favorable or unfavorable, may be either extremely active or extremely inactive at a time selected at random, so far as the individual student's health is concerned. Why should several per cent of a year's mark be allowed to depend on a cup of green tea or a dyspeptic turn on a February or June morning...
...Timothy Dwight, President of Yale College, began a series of journeys for the sake of vacation recreation. These excursions he kept up for a number of years, and visited at one time or another nearly every town in New England and many in New York. At about the same period he became curious to know the manner in which New England appeared eighty or a hundred years before his time. He was unable to find any information such as he searched for. He was led to think, therefore, that those who lived eighty or a hundred years after him might...
These travels were begun in 1796, and as it is now 1876, President Dwight's eighty years are just completed, and the time has come to take down his ponderous volumes from the shelves, and after having brushed off the dust which has been accumulating for eight decades, to obtain a view of the country as it appeared at the end of the last century. Besides, this is the Centennial year, when people everywhere are looking up the records of the past. So let every New-Englander and New-Yorker, and every one who is interested in any New England...