Word: done
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Yale crew hope to beat Harvard next year by a new stroke, which is pronounced by some who have seen it to be the first practical stroke Yale has ever adopted. The old hang at the end of the stroke is abolished, and several crooked little points are also done away with. In the new stroke, the reach is shorter than heretofore, to insure a strong and steady grip of the water, and to save the additional exertion formerly used in putting the blade back. In feathering, the blade will be horizontal instead of at an angle of forty-five...
...Yale Lit. is very pleasant reading, after its rampant fellow-collegian. One of its poems, a little song called "Only," is pretty, and all the prose articles are good and well done. The best of them seems to us to be the one on that perennial question "What do we come here for?" entitled "An 'Immortal's' Experience...
...however faithfully he has done his work for recitations, likes to go into a three-hour examination without making some review of the subject; nor, we think, does any man wish to study during the extremely short winter-vacation which is allowed us. But the new arrangement, which makes the Semi-annuals begin on the 21st of January instead of on the 6th or 7th of February, forces us to do one of these two things. Either reviewing must be done before we go home, and left to lie fallow in the holidays, or we must attempt to go over...
...such legacy as this at present, it can at least make the most of the sources of income which it already possesses. Any one with the least capacity for business can see, by looking over the list of vacant rooms in college buildings, that this is not done now. The College loses over $7,000 this year by being unable to let rooms, $4,000 of this loss being in Thayer alone. Would it not be well for a college which pretends to be as poor as Harvard does to consider whether it would not make more money by letting...
...summer school seems to have done good work. In Botany there were 35 students; in Chemistry, 29; and in Geology, 7. The books in all the libraries have increased from 232,000 to 248,000. Evening readings are assuming yearly a greater importance. Besides Scientific German, readings are to be given, and comments made, in French, German, Spanish, and Italian, without translating...