Word: well
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...result of the race was a great surprise to everybody, for Ninety-six had been picked as a sure winner. The Freshmen well deserved their victory, since they easily excelled the other crews in every way. Had their coxswain held a better course their time might have been lowered by several seconds. An even stroke of thirty-eight strokes to the minute was rowed throughout the entire race. Their watermanship was excellent and the work of stroke deserves special praise. A great deal of credit for their remarkably good showing is due P. D. Rust '98, who coached...
...England has seized upon the 176,000 shares which Egypt owned in the Suez Canal and has deprived the country of its revenue: Quar. Rev. as above.- (h) If it be said that the present condition of Egypt is more prosperous than ever, we answer that the foundations of well being were laid by France, not by England-(a) England failed to help the making of the foundations of the present prosperity in Egypt.- () The canal.- (2) The Burrage.- (3) The beginnings of just government.- (4) Equal justice.- (5) National education.- (6) Commerce.- (7) Manufactures: Quar...
...Harvard Cricket Eleven started the season well by winning the first match with Lowell by a score of 51 to 27. A great deal of credit for the game is due to the bowling of Clark and Lippincott. There was no large individual score on either side, but the runs were pretty well scattered. The scoring was very slow, owing to the softness of the ground. Harvard won the toss and went in first to bat. As Lowell only scored 27 runs, less than 60 per cent. of the Harvard score, they started their second innings immediately after the first...
...Harvard College Nine beat the Worcester Polytechnic Institute nine on Holmes Field, Saturday afternoon, by a score of 12 to 7. The game was well played on both sides and most of the runs were made by dint of heavy batting. Gregory pitched a clean game for Harvard, striking out eight men, and giving but three bases on balls. B. Hayes put up a great game on third base...
...Semites are a well-defined group of peoples inhabiting Western Asia, with a history extending from the remotest past to the present day. They have done an important work in civilization, giving to the world the alphabet, monotheism, the Bible, the Koran, and the three religious-Judaism, Christianity and Islam. They are therefore of permanent interest to students of language, literature, history, religion, and art. The four informal lectures announced for this week and the next are intended to give a general view of the language and the literature, especially the latter, of four of the chief members...