Word: winters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Appleton Chapel more impressive and earnest than the opening Sunday services a week ago. Dr. Peabody and his associates have reason for renewed conviction as to the wisdom of our religious system. With the experience of two years behind us, we know that the bright outlook for the coming winter will not be falsified. Mr. Locke has strengthened the chapel choir by the addition of new members and the volume and tone of the boy's voices have greatly improved. There is no danger that the music will fall below its usual high standard...
...president of Dartmouth college has ordered the students to build a cage, in which to practice base-ball during the winter, and he has himself subscribed $400 for that purpose. The cage will cost...
...steady improvement in the Yale crews since they began rowing in a tank during the winter months seems to indicate that such an arrangement is superior to the rowing machines heretofore in vogue, and Harvard would do well to imitate her rival in this matter. With the abolition of the arbitrary system by which the crew was controlled last year and the appointment of a competent advisory committee, there is no reason why Harvard should not turn out a good crew this year from the excellent material now in college. Unless the tables are turned soon, the interest in rowing...
...will be called the Walter Hastings Hall, after its donor, is now well under way, and will probably be ready for use in the fall of 1889. The basement and two lower stories are already built, and it is hoped that the building will be entirely closed in before winter, so that the plastering may be done during the cold weather. The exterior dimensions are 210x120 feet, and the material used in construction is a yellowish-brown brick, mottled with blue, which is made by the Perth Amboy Company in New Jersey. This material has been but little used...
...have made the change at some sacrifice, since the extra column of reading matter on the front page deprives us of a whole column of valuable advertisements. It also calls for a much greater amount of work from the editors of the paper, and this, especially in the winter season, is no light matter. But nevertheless we have decided to make the change, believing it to be for the best, and trusting to the generosity and good will of the students and graduates to make up in subscriptions what we have lost financially, and to come forward with contributions...