Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...plain dormitories and other needed buildings were scattered about in my school-boy days, groans under the weight of the massive edifices which have s rung up all around them, crowned by the tower of that noble structure which stands in full view before me as I lift my eyes from the portfolio on the back of which I am now writing.-Oliver Wendell Holmes in the Atlantic...
...were necessary to make a good teacher; first, he must be master of his work and have ability to inform and instruct; second, he must have the rare gift of being able to stimulate and incite his pupils and to convert the knowledge he posessed into to a lever lift, exercise and strengthen the growing minds committed to his care." Few realize the importance and truth that is contained in these simple words and we believe that many of the students do not even give a thought about the instructors they elect courses under. Naturally a man reasons that...
POLE YAULT,for which only two entered, namely, H. F. Mandell, '84, and P. R. Frothingham, '86. Both cleared the bar up to 8 feet, but Frothingham failed to lift himself over 8 feet, 11 1-2 inches, and as Mandell could not get over 9 feet, 5 inches, he ceased to try and was declared winner at 8 feet, 11 1-2 inches...
...Smith, of New Haven, stands up for athletics when he says that the men who know how to do things in their business and professions, and who do them in practical confidence are generally men who in early lift learned how to work with their hands. There is certain intellectual gain in acquiring the dexterous or steady...
...confused struggle, a mass of legs, arms, heads, beams, and umbrellas on the surface of the water. But almost instantly those who were unhurt rushed to raise the platform of the upper balcony, and free those who were caught between the two platforms It took some, thirty men to lift the upper platform, and carry the injured into the boat house. Among the hats, umbrellas, and textbooks, which went floating off with the current, came the four crews, rowing with all their strength. They ran their boats on shore, and rushed out to be of any possible help. There...