Word: whether
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...changing the hour of religious service will force a large body of men to migrate to other churches. We believe that many men are waiting for the evening chapel to begin and that they imagine, in the meanwhile, that they are not drawing on their precious store of "cuts." Whether the change was due to a vacancy in the college chaplainship or to some more occult cause, we are unable to state, but that it has succeeded in inconveniencing a large number of students is very evident by the occasional murmurs of disapproval which reach our ears...
...request Captain Hammond then spoke and explained Harvard's position in relation to the recent difficulty with Columbia. His explanation and that of Mr. Bancroft, who spoke subsequently, was essentially the same as the one contained in the Crimson. The difficulty seems to rest on the misunderstanding as to whether Harvard or Columbia was to have had the privilege of naming the hour as well as the day of the race. Harvard refused to row at the hour set by Columbia. Consequently, according to the distinct understanding of the Harvard crew, by mutual consent it was decided that the race...
...stroke before they use their slides. The members of the crew believe in scientific rowing; they have a stroke that has been frequently tested, and as a whole they row in admirable form. The accuracy and finish of their movements make their rowing something to be admired, whether it brings them victory...
There has been no time in the history of Yale boating when every thing pertaining to the University crew has been kept so distressingly secret as during the present year. Whether this seccrey is an advantage or not is one of those things which every one must wait to find...
...some respects the present quarters of the reading room are an improvement on its previous ones. They are lighter and airier and much more commodious; but whether the corporation will go to the extent of heating the whole of lower Massachusetts for the use of the reading room during the winter season is a momentous question, whose answer is very doubtful. Another and more serious objection to Massachusetts as the permanent quarters of the reading room is that readers are continually disturbed and inconvenienced by the ever-recurring examinations which are held there. This objection might be considerably obviated...