Word: solidity
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...constituency for an annual subscription toward the necessary expenses. The school was founded. At the present moment it has the active assistance of no less than sixteen colleges. It owns a fine site on Mt. Lycabettus, presented by the Greek government; has in process of erection a commodious and solid building to cost twenty thousand dollars; posesses a library of between fifteen hundred and two thousand volumes; is free from debt, and has an established reputation. Cholera closed the Levant to travellers for one of these years; but no less than eighteen students have been in regular attendance and scores...
...course objections to the re-admittance of the Yale freshman crew to the annual contest with Columbia, but there are many reasons also why our freshmen should concur with the decision reached by Columbia. Whatever be the result of the deliberations of Monday night, that judgment must have good solid reasons behind it and must not be the outcome of prejudice or hasty and careless discussion. Our correspondent of to-day may be right in the main, but we thin that the position which he takes is narrow and somewhat superficial. Further comment on the subject we shall reserve until...
There are now twenty men trying for the freshman crew. They are, as a rule, good solid looking men and ought to give a good account of themselves at New London next spring. The heaviest man trying weighs 183 pounds and the lightest...
...library authorities also inform us of the significant fact that the bulk of the volumes circulated in the library are not light, useless novels and romances, but works of solid learning and lasting value...
...seen, and it awoke enthusiasm all along the route. which our artist has here faithfully depicted, was procured by Messrs. F. H. Sellers, G. B. Baker, Jr., and C. C. Carmalt, '87. It was a genuine old-fashioned coach with six horses fastened to its solid irons. Inside and out it was covered with the most tastefully, correctly and historically costumed men in the whole parade. The guard and coachmen were dressed in long surtouts of brown pleated stuff, and the former bore an immense horn which he blew at intervals. The passengers of the coach were students and gentlemen...