Word: useful
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...committee has found that the State will allow the use of Boxford Camp, which is the regular camp of the 2nd Corps of Cadets. This camp is provided with a mess house, board floors for the tents, rifle butts, bathing facilities, etc. There are two large fields well adapted for drill of all kinds. The situation is cool, and the camp is in every way desirable...
...Cambridge we had a series of unexpected bits of good luck in the selling of old boats, recovering the money spent on defective oars, and in other ways. We had up to that time incurred bills for a new cedar shell, for oars, training table, boat house charges, use of launch and various smaller items, amounting in all to $1131.76. We sold our broken barge for $50.00, the old paper shell of our freshman year for $20.00, our old cedar shell for $235.00, and the new one with the oars for $350.00. Including the money raised by subscription...
ELIZABETH M. COTTER offers the use of her home and grounds at 10 Oxford St., for Class Day. They are suitable for a club or a private spread and are very convenient to the Yard. Next door to Foxcroft...
...college exercises have in the past been more impressive than those held yearly in Sanders Theatre on Memorial Day. The influence of the day and the associations of the place may well inspire any speaker, and those who have delivered the addresses have always made good use of the opportunity...
...from that of Americans who haven't the good fortune to go to college; the other is the notion of a Harvard Freshman or Sophomore as the wielder of an "austere academical influence." There was no course in austere influences in my day; and we were never advised to use any particular brand of patriotism. In fact, we were rather led to believe that those who occupy the choicest places in the Republic should be the quickest to respond to its call for service. Perhaps we were misled by General Charles Lowell's reply to the man who proposed...