Word: woodenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have one gate sadly ajar, making it necessary to wedge one's way in or squirm through surreptiously. The conditions in the Houses are even worse during the regular college year. There are many fine portals that open only once a year to admit the tractor that hauls the wooden board walks. Enough of cloistering. R. A. Briggs...
When the College first opened in 1638, Nathaniel Eaton, a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, was appointed headmaster. He shepherded his pupils into a rude wooden building, the foundations of which were uncovered in building the Harvard Square subway terminal. But Eaton's school was a miserable affair, a boarding-school of Oliver Twist pupils and Fagan-like masters, and Eaton himself was removed in two years for assaulting a "Young gentleman" with a club. This rough frontiersman-teacher kept a diary, in which he related how he set out 30 apple trees "in the Yard," literally the backyard...
...Harvard College" was the name for the first wooden building. It stood on the present site of Grays Hall, and its ground floor was largely taken up by the buttery, where the College bottles, not butter, were kept. All these early buildings down to and including Holworthy were called "Colleges," and up until the Civil War people used to speak of the "Colleges at Cambridge," when speaking of the buildings in the Yard. Here the first Commencement took place in 1642, which included, just as today, orations in Latin and English, elder statesmen and church dignitaries, and hoards of beaming...
...coolies sweating under the guidance of Sir John Hope Simpson. Director General of Flood Relief. Sir John, when he visited the U. S. two months ago, told proudly how the 1,400,000 Chinese which the Chinese Government placed at his disposal piled up and packed down with heavy wooden tamps wielded by six men enough dirt to "put a dike around the earth at the equator six feet thick and six feet high." According to Sir John "the greatest effect was political. The peasant now knows that there is a Central Government who thinks of him. . . . Our flood relief...
Cultural measures of this sort already taken consist in weeding out of Prussian schools so-called "American competitive sports," substituting such "German military sports" as learning to throw wooden hand grenades ballasted with lead to correct military weight...