Word: timing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...rumored that plastering will begin in Hastings in a very short time...
...Herbert Henry Darling of the class of 1889, has been awarded the Summer Prize ($100) for 1887-88 for an essay on "Great National Armaments in Time of Peace." The judges were Prof. Ames and Prof. Emerton...
Owing to the lack of profit made on "blue books," and to reduce the number of instances in which time has to be taken to count out and make change for less than a dozen, the prices are advanced to 5 cents each for the 3 hour books, and 3 cents for the 1-hour. Packages of 1 dozen books will remain at the old price, 35 cents and 24 cents...
...fifth hare and hounds run of the season was held yesterday afternoon. The hounds won for the first time this year. It was a fast hunt; that is, there was no break and the hounds were not required to keep together. The hares, Gorham, '90 and Downs, '90 started from Matthews at 3.21 and left a very good trail through Cambridge to Fresh Pond, thence through Watertown, the Newtons, Brighton and Barry's Corners, leaving the back at the last named place. They arrived at the gymnasium at 4.55, after a hard run of twelve miles. Twelve hounds started...
...accused of influencing the committee to decide against New York, thinking they might force Yale to come to Cambridge. This is as absurd as it is unfair and ungenerous. The foot-ball men could not influence the Athletic Committee. The votes of the overseers and of the faculty have time and again been against allowing Harvard to play in New York, and there was nothing else for the committee to decide. In fact they saved time by deciding at once...