Word: use
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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CRICKET CLUB. The men who use the new clay crease af the club are expected to join the association. The dues are $2.25. They may be paid and shingles obtained from the manager's room, 53 Thayer. For a fortnight he will have set hours. Monday, 10-11. Wednesday, 11-12, and Saturday...
...extent prescribed, a large choice of electives is allowed to upper classmen. The scientific department is under the instruction of the professors of the Institute of Technology. Special arrangements have been made with the Boston Public Library authorities, which give the students of the university exceptional advantages in their use of books...
...famous crew. There is a pair of parallel pars at the end of the boat, and the stroke is always in great danger of being kicked in the head and having his eye-glass disarranged. The chest-weights take up one side of the room, and when in use, the men on the flying rings have to stand aside. In fact, there is so very little room anywhere that pneumatic machines have to be used by the oarsmen, instead of hydraulic. The air is noisome and damp, and the room is unpleasantly dark. Having jotted these things down mentally...
...existence of faults. The fact is that the book has many faults. As a "piece of literary workmanship" it is far from perfect; the book abounds in inharmonious and loosely-constructed sentences; it contains positive errors so glaring as to be palpable to the merest survey; the use of metophor is carried to such an extent as to be wearisome; and the sole merit of the book is the entertaining way in which a clever but fantastic and imaginative, idea is developed into an interesting story. For interesting it certainly is, but decidedly not powerful. The manner in which...
...state of affairs. There is a remedy. At every game a detail of Cambridge "constabulary" is hired to keep the non-paying spectators from encroaching upon the field. This they successfully accomplish during the progress of the game, and it would be in their power, by a judicious use of the cane, to keep back the howling mob until players and spectators had left the field. We venture to suggest that the management of the nine try this experiment, since it involves no additional expense...