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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...carefully, we are working against the interests of the University crew. We are not. There is but one time to determine what stroke a crew is rowing, and that is during the race: different individuals often use different methods in teaching precisely the same stroke. Those methods, to, will depend largely upon the men in the boat and their tendency to fall into faults...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication. | 4/2/1889 | See Source »

...both active and passive, and elasticity. Dehiscence is not necessarily elastic, and an ordinary observer cannot fail to corroborate the truth of this statement by seeing the workings of nature in regard to plant growth. Inherent means for dissemination, however, must always prove limited, and it is necessary to depend largely for the distribution of seeds over the world and their growth, upon extraneous means. These are divided into two classes-inorganic and organic. The primary inorganic causes are the actions of winds, streams, currents, and glaciers. It is almost impossible to estimate the amount of work due to these...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowdoin Prize Dissertation. | 3/27/1889 | See Source »

...CRIMSON is an important and significant innovation. These four publications fill very different places and satisfy very different demands but, after all, their aim is the same. Forming. as they do, the strongest incentive to literary work, they are coming to see that their power in the future must depend largely upon their unity. The apparent rivalry between them has always been more fancied than real. That phase of college journalism by which one paper makes capital by carping at another is past. At Harvard, the papers have learned to rely upon themselves and confine their comments upon their contemporaries...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/9/1889 | See Source »

...gymnasium, an affair unlike anything ever before attempted by a municipality. The plan is intended for the benefit of the working men, at whose command it will place the means for the improvement, development and exercise of the physical man. The whole plan is experimental, and its continuance will depend upon the manner in which the public takes to the idea...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An open-air Gymnasium. | 2/27/1889 | See Source »

...Hebrew and the Semitic languages, who cannot avail themselves of opportunities for oral instruction. Its membership is to include persons of both sexes. The work in the school is carried on at home by a regular correspondence with a careful instructor, and the method, which is purely inductive, will depend for success upon the studious purpose of the pupil. An elementary course is also offered in Aramaic. Arabic and Assyrian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 12/10/1888 | See Source »

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