Word: touched
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...best productions that have come from the pen of an editor of the Monthly is the account of "An Eighteenth Century Jubilee," written by Mr. Howe. The careful handling of detail, the judicious mingling of light and shade, the vivacity of expression and the lightness of touch manifested in this sketch give a peculiarly charming effect. The writer has caught the happy spirit without the ridiculousness of Boswell, whose strange acts at the Shakespeare jubilee of 1769 are incidentally described. Mr. Herrick's story, "Optimaet Pessima" is a powerful effort. A vagueness of meaning seems at first to characterize...
THORNTON WOODBURY, Manager Harvard Nine.THE referee's tug will leave South Boston bridge at 3.30 to go over the course, but will touch at South Boston bridge again...
...final lecture in the Jefferson Laboratory course was givne last night by Dr. Whiting on the subject "Matter in Motion." Matter sometimes offers but little resistance to an impulsive force. The touch of a feather, for instance, will set in motion a carefully balanced ball weighing 20 lbs., but only when the force is slowly applied. When a force is exerted suddenly, considerable resistance is offered even by as mobile a body as air. Birds are enabled to fly only by the resistance of the air during the downward stroke of the wings. During the upward stroke, less resistance...
...walkover in the rope-climbing. Although considerably hampered by the safety rope, attached to his waist, he made the ascent in 21 1-2 sec., coming quite close to the record. The high kick brought out E. E. Buckingham, L. S., and R. B. Hale, '91. Buckingham could not touch the disk at 8 ft. 6 3-4 in., and Hale at the following height. Hale thus took the event with a kick of 8 ft. 6 3-4 in. The flying rings was the next event. M. F. Pillsbury, 89; M. D. Hull, '89; Barney, '90; Myers...
...send or give your subscriptions in at once to the manager of the crew. He has so much on his hands that it is well-nigh impossible for him to visit each man. Therefore, be generous and aid him in his work. For this is a matter which should touch the pride of every true Harvard...