Word: lifting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...twentieth verses. He spoke of the element of personal responsibility which underlies and controls development, considering the thought in its relations to home, to society, to government, to the university life, of which we are a part, and finally to man himself. The choir sang Hopkin's anthem, "Lift up your heads," Stainer's, "Blessed be the Man," and Brown's "Thy sun shall no more go down...
...carried out it will add another to the list of championship contests between Yale and Harvard. Of course it will be impossible to arouse as general an interest in bicycling as exists in foot-ball, base-ball, or rowing, but a race like the one proposed will tend to lift bicycling from the comparatively insignificant place it now holds as a college sport. Yale has many good riders, and the race would probably be very closely contested...
...Columbia is far behind the age. The other schools are managed so as to keep abreast of the times, and this system has made them highly successful. A few radical changes would raise a department which is now of little account into greater usefulness, otherwise it can never lift itself above its present state...
...Wilcox, '88 S., 155 lbs., is slow with his hands, pulls through the water unsteadily, finishes too shallow and does not lift his oar out clean. He is an old man and what is lost in weight is more than compensated for by the endurance which his age gives...
...radiators but will encircle the walls of each room. A large room in the tower is to be used as a technical library and will contain all the standard works. The general store-room for the apparatus is in the basement and is connected with the laboratories by a "lift" No pains have been spared in the work and the building when finished will be one of the best of its kind in the country...