Word: rest
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Much dissatisfaction was also felt at the withholding of one of the first prizes, especially as the judges declared that they were greatly pleased with the high standard of the speaking. We cannot believe that they really gave as a reason that one speaker was so far above the rest that no other should have a first prize. As the whole matter stands, they have thrown a sleight upon the good sense of an audience certainly not lacking in intelligence, nor deserving to be considered a parcel of claqueurs...
There are two stairways that lead to the second floor, one in the entrance-hall and one in the gymnasium proper. A track 5 feet wide, and with a circuit of about 250 feet, occupies the gallery. The rest of the floor is taken up with a meeting-room, 26 by 70 feet, a boxing and fencing room of the same dimensions, a janitor's room, store-room, and a gymnasium, 18 by 78 feet, for hydraulic rowing-weights...
...most attractive part of the building. Here there are nine bowling-alleys in a room 83 by 84 feet. At the northern end space has been set apart, 83 by 30 feet, for ball practice, and coal-bins, store-rooms, water-closets, and a boiler-room fill the rest of the basement. A large bow-window projects from the western side of the gymnasium, and is designated as the "Armory." It is to be hoped that the Pea-body rifles of the H. R. C. will be safe in this armory from the raids of socialists and communists...
...intuition that it was coming, and got under way a second or two before Harvard. But our men were off the next instant, and made the smooth paper shell literally jump through the water. At the end of the sixth stroke they were fairly ahead of Yale, and the rest of the race showed only a constant increase of the distance between the two boats...
Cold as the bloodless hands in death that rest...