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...colleges in the South Atlantic and Gulf States, its prestige keeps it at the head. In 1861, its 700 students went almost in a body to the field. during the war a handful of professors maintained the outward show of instruction, joining the army in some instances for the summer vacation. The spacious buildings were a hospital for the Confederate soldiers, kept choked by the costly battles fought near by. When the war was done, the wearied people turned slowly to the thought of education, and the university regained its lost place slowly. Last year, esteemed a comparatively prosperous...
Hosmer, the oarsman, rowed 36 regattas this summer and was second to Hanlan every time...
...system of public water-works, the need of which he saw upon his visit there. He conducted courses of study in the college until, at the beginning of last year, sickness compelled him to give up a course he contemplated giving. He had again become about well last summer, but the coming again of winter confined him to his room. He is little known to undergraduates of the present day in Cambridge, but will be greatly missed, nevertheless, from the university. [Evening Post...
...opinion is that the weight on the diagonal support pushed out the pile, separated the stringer and summer, tearing off the small piece of stringer which rested directly on top of the pile, and so brought down the other parts...
...have always considered that the boat houses were in possession of the boat club, and that it would notify me of needed repairs. This is exemplified by the fact that the boat club holds the only keys to the main locks of the buildings, and I was last summer unable to let my workmen in, or get in to see to the work without having the janitor unlock the doors. He is employed by the club and not by the college...