Word: worked
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...atmosphere, can import such kinds of colored glass as are suitable to it: while Englishmen, selecting the tints with reference to their dull atmosphere, generally make use of those which when exposed to our clear light are entirely too bright. As we have a sample of American work, of which we may be justly proud, in the handsome windows which now adorn Memorial Hall, there certainly seems to be no necessity for sending to England, and paying a premium for the name of a firm, when the work can be done equally well here...
...conclusively that nothing but our boating interest can be well supported by subscription, and even this with the utmost difficulty. There must then be a very strong reason for such a blow at the very life of these institutions of the students. If there is any pernicious influence at work in entertainments given for money, detrimental to the best interests of the University, then by all means let them...
...prospects of the University Crew seem favorable. There are a dozen men working hard for positions upon it. A welcome bit of news is that the old rowing-weights are to be abandoned, and in their place a new style, greatly superior, substituted. This new rowing apparatus will be, as far as the kind of work goes, the same as that in the boat. What is to all intents and purposes an oar will be used, and this, at the end near the fulcrum, is attached to a piston. When the power is exerted, the piston is made to force...
...have been favored with advance sheets of the forthcoming work, "The History of Harvard College." In another column will be found an interesting selection from it, in relation to prayers, from which those of us who attend the matins of to day may gather, at least, a grain of comfort in the fact that our lot is luxurious when compared to that of our grandfathers...
...association of colored waiters at Memorial Hall, in consideration of the fact that members of the Law School have always been excluded from rowing on the 'Varsity. As soon as the Convention adjourned our delegates hastened back to Cambridge, and at their recommendation the colored waiters were set to work, between meals, in the Gymnasium. At the spring races they entered a crew composed of six stalwart brothers, Stubbs by name, which gained considerable advantage over our University crew, beating it by one mile. It was thereupon resolved that the colored crew should represent Harvard at the Intercollegiate Regatta...