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...scoring and training of candidates for crew was finished the week before the recess. This term, when they return, strict training will be begun. The crew will be at a training table after January 15, and will begin the use of sliding seats this term. The work of last term was on stationary seats under the general direction of Captain Bob Cook who visited New Haven four times. This term his visits will be weekly. Eleven men have been selected to train and from them the crew will be chosen later on. Two of them, Capt. Flanders, '85, and Peters...
...three buildings, Massachusetts, Old Harvard and Old Stoughton were turned into barracks. No college work was done till the following September. In that month, as the siege was still in progress, the college assembled at Concord where the regular curriculum was carried on till June 1776, when all returned to Cambridge. Meanwhile, as the common soldiers occupied the buildings, the provincial Congress had caused the library and apparatus to be removed to Andover. Here they remained in safe keeping at the Theological Seminary until 1778, when they were returned to the proper places. In the fall of 1777 came another...
...frequently happens, either through misdirection or carelessness, that the wrong letters are left in a man's room, where they remain for a number of days without any effort on the part of the receiver to return them to the post office or to their rightful owner. We do not intend to blame the postman who discharges his duties in a perfectly satisfactory manner. When, however, we think of the large amount of mail which passes daily through his hands, there is little wonder that occasionally letters find their way into the wrong rooms. Besides, as we have said above...
...visited Greece, and upon his return in 1850 immediately began collecting material for the Greek dictionary. He put forth what was a sort of precursor to that work, 'A Glossary of Later and Byzantine Greek' in 1860. Alibone says of his contribution in this kind of learning, that "it was a peculiar boon to scholars and must occupy a place with the glossaries of Ducange and Charpentier." In 1860 he received the appointment to the professorship of Ancient, Byzantine, and Modern Greek which he held until his death. He again visited Greece...
...coming to New York. The foot-ball Directors held a meeting Monday afternoon, Dec. 3, 1383, at which meeting it was resolved that Columbia refuels to pay this demand of Princeton, as being exorbitant, one item being expenses of twenty-two men from Princeton to New York and return. At the same meeting a demand from Harvard for $50 to pay for advertising the Columbia-Harvrd game was presented to the Directors. It was resolved that this demand also be not acceded to. When the Harvard faculty took their action with regard to foot ball, the captain of the Columbia...