Word: uses
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Junior crew has no settled order. The two crews of the first squad start in with about the same men every day and then men from the second squad are put in various places in the two boats. They do not use the slides as yet but are trying to perfect the body reach. The majority of the men do not seem to reach far enough. The time of the first squad has improved, but the men from the second squad break it up considerably...
...have been, as has been pointed out before, a severe blow to the nine and to the Mott Haven Team both to their finances and to the interest and support taken in them. Neither a diamond nor a running track could be built on Soldiers Field in time for use this season and certainly very few men could be induced to attend games on the old grounds if they would be obliged to stand...
...Corporation could use the income of additional endowments to the amount of ten millions of dollars for the satisfaction of none but well-known and urgent wants." It seems a direct reproach to the many rich Harvard graduates, of which Harvard has more probably than any other university in the land, that it should suffer so severely for the means to carry out the plans so wisely and broadly conceived to make it a complete university, doing the most that it is capable of in the field of education...
...University of Pennsylvania, alumni and outsiders may use the library on the payment of a yearly fee of three dollars...
...same period at least five American universities, all situated outside of New England, received much larger additions to their endowments. If the primacy of Harvard University among American institutions of education is to be maintained, it must not be surpassed by any other in material resources. The Corporation could use the income of additional endowment to the amount of $10,000,000.00 for the satisfaction of none but well-known and urgent wants...