Word: sinking
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Dates: during 1890-1890
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...little order was kept during meals. The bill of fare was chosen by regular routine, so that you could predict every meal beforehand. And with all this, the price of board averaged $4.23 a week during the first two terms. This was the condition into which inefficient management could sink the Hall, and the condition out of which the present management has raised...
...last April, its total membership now amounting to sixty. The dark room in the basement of Sever hall is in good order, affording every facility for work. Developing trays of all sizes, hypo tanks, graduates, scales, wash-boxes, gas and running water, are at the disposal of members. The sink has been lined through out with zinc, making leakage an impossibility. What the club now needs is an enlarging lantern and more lockers. A small debt remains, which will probably be raised before summer, and it is hoped that an enlarged membership will enable the club to increase the dark...
...large hole in the blade and tacking upon the remaining portions thick strips of wood. The water going through the hole made the oar feel dead, while the strips of wood on the blades made them very heavy. There was a tendency in all of the oars to sink in the water so that a great effort was necessary to keep them at the surface. Mr. Keyes thinks that oars without any holes in them will work very much better. Besides the oars the volume of water to be moved makes the labor excessive. It is though that the tank...