Word: taking
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...there are several cars that take us there," replied...
...take this for Cicero...
...seems, at first sight, that under the new regulations which provide for the exchange of rooms, much dishonest speculation might take place. But inasmuch as the provision is not for a transfer, but for an exchange of rooms, we do not see that the objection to the plan is a forcible one. In the first place, the old system has not been entirely satisfactory, for when a poor student draws an expensive room, and a wealthy student a cheap one, the advantage of an exchange is obvious. The new plan is adopted to meet just such needs. Under its provisions...
HARVARD has now the most costly building for a Gymnasium in this country; she has students enough who are willing, even anxious, to use it, but no one to wisely assume the direction of fitting it with the apparatus, nor to take charge of it when complete. Judging from the overtures that have been made to several well-known instructors in gymnastics, the want (real or supposed) of money is likely to delay for the present the true use of this fine building, and make it simply an enlarged and better illustrated section of the present Gymnasium, which...
...with it the moral) well being of the college students; but a man single-handed, with no very good gymnasium or apparatus, and without the pecuniary resources Harvard can command, cannot do what might easily be done in the Hemenway Gymnasium, if only the authorities might be induced to take the wise course...