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...scientific mind noticed the utter lack of physical relation between the figures and their backgrounds. He felt a desire to warn the Cardinal, sitting rich in his scarlet and apparently on the very top of a tower, that he was in imminent peril of being blown off like a bird's nest into the village and the hills beneath. He felt a need of lending hat and coat to "My Uncle Daniel and His Family," who stand quietly as if in a studio, hatless, fan in hand, on a hill-top while behind them the land spreads...
...Kimball, Bird...
Senior Class: G. W. Benedict, M. H. Bird, J. C. McMullin, W. H. Meeker, J. W. Pennock, W. W. Sanders, F. M. Weld, H. R. Guild...
...yard dash the records of 1875 and 1915 vary even more. C. S. Bird '77 held this record in 1875, his time being 60 seconds. One year later H. C. Dunham '77 cut two seconds from this time, and in 1878 R. Bacon '80 set up a new record of 54 seconds. In the next three years 3 1-4 seconds were clipped from Bacon's record, E. J. Wendell '82 reducing it by 1-2 second, and W. H. Goodwin, Jr., '84 lowering it to 50 3-4 seconds. This record stood for nine years, until W. C. Downes...
...minute and eighteen seconds have been clipped from the record in the mile-run since 1874. C. S. Bird '77 held this record, his time being 5 minutes 41 3-4 seconds. One year later, A. L. Lowell '77 lowered Bird's record to 5 minutes 2 1-2 seconds. In 1880 A. Thorndike '81 set up a record of 4 minutes 42 7-8 seconds, which was not broken for twelve years. G. Lowell '92 and R. Grant '97 reduced this time to 4 minutes 33 2-5 seconds and 4 minutes 26 1-5 seconds respectively. The record...