Word: hardness
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...freshman nine at Yale have been doing some hard hitting lately...
...reached from the vestibule by the turret staircase before mentioned. This will be fitted with a carved fireplace like that in the large reading room. Leading from this is the dean's room, which also opens into the reading room. The finish on this floor will be entirely of hard pine with exposed beams, as on the first floor. The basement of the building is given up to the lavatories for professors' and students' use, the boiler rooms and two large unpacking rooms from which an elevator runs to the librarian's room. All goods can be loaded and unloaded...
...support himself while in college if he has the brains which would support him outside. These facts, also, ought to go far toward impressing the community with the idea-novel, to be sure, but still true-that a great portion of the students at Harvard are laborious and hard-working-not too proud to toil for their daily bread, and not too lazy to do honest work...
...those in modern mills, with the exception of the upper flooring of seven-eighths inch maple. These floors will be constructed as follows: Immediately on top of beams is a layer of two-inch spruce, while above this is a flooring of seven-eighths inch maple. Another layer of hard wood is placed below the spruce and between the beams, furnishing a ceiling for the rooms below...
...follows: "Because the freshman nine was unfortunate in two of its games with the consolidated, a great deal of adverse criticism has been bestowed upon it, and perhaps justly, but the class should remember that no such pitcher will probably be encountered on freshman nines, that the nine hits hard, and that hard work, faithful training and good management are doing all that can be done...