Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Vesper services will be held on Thursday of each week in term-time until further notice. Each service will begin promptly at 5 p. m. and close about 5.30. The public are invited to these services...
...intercollegiate games in New York last May, Webster, of the University of Pennsylvania, broke the world's record in the high jump, with a jump of 5 feet, 11 1-2 inches. He defeated Page at the games but did not equal Page's record which at that time was over six feet. In the pole vault, an unfair comparison was made between Shearman's record and that of Ray of England, in that the reader was led to suppose that Ray's record is a college one, when in reality it is not. A. Copeland's recorded...
...freshmen rowed in the tank yesterday afternoon for the first time...
...adjourned meeting of the board of overseers of Harvard College was held Wednesday forenoon at 50 State street, with Colonel Charles R. Codman in the chair. The time of meeting was taken up with a discussion of the report of the committee on the discipline and government of the college, the desire to speak on the subject leading to an adjournment of the board to Wednesday next. It was voted to concur in electing a trustee of the Museum of Fine Arts for a year from January 1, and Messrs. William Gray, Henry J. Bigelow and Henry Lee were appointed...
...members of the Freshman Glee Club have been practicing faithfully for some weeks, and the prospects of a good club seem to be very fair. With the exception of the pianist, the permanent officers of the club were chosen at the beginning of the term. Before that time the unsettled state of the organization, and the knowledge that the officers were elected only for the time being, made it impossible for the club to have regular times for rehearsals, and, therefore, precluded the possibility, of its rapid progress. At present there are about thirty or forty candidates for positions...