Word: blowing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...both parties. That this will be the result we firmly believe. The experience of our Reading-Room proves 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...
Then one began to blow, and cursed...
...most important elements and acids. Junior qualitative analysis is mostly a laboratory course, requiring some manipulation and a fair memory. It consists of lectures on the most prominent bases and acids with experimental practice in the analysis of liquids and solids. Mineralogy is also a laboratory course of blow-pipe analysis; it requires a good memory and some experience in drawing crystals and geometrical figures. In it a good memory is sure of success. Quantitative analysis is for the steady hand and patient brain. It teaches and requires delicacy of manipulation; is concerned with the measuring by weight...
...occupants of Thayer were startled, last Wednesday night, by an explosion, caused by an indiscreet Freshman, who was experimenting with an oxy-hydrogen blow-pipe...
...Courant and Record have got into an imbroglio of a most disgraceful character. The first blow was struck by the Record, in a four-page editorial of immoderate tone, charging the Courant with not fairly representing the College, and with having failed to perform the pledges given at its start. The spleen of the writer, however, is evidently directed against a particular individual, and finds vent in numerous villifying and offensive personalities. In the same issue a would-be humorous article contains several coarse and vulgar jokes at the expense of the Courant board. Thus far our sympathy is with...