Word: actions
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...present Harvard system the finish is very poor. The trunk is doubt led up, the shoulders are rounded and breathing is not free. The boat's impetus is interrupted by the labored action of feathering with the outside forearm and elbow and by the "sudden rush forward of the arms and trunk" after feathering. The whole weight of the rowing crew is shifted aft together, with the result that the stern is buried and the impetus again interrupted at the very moment when every extra ounce of weight tells, while the oarsman is brought to the full reach...
...SEARS.SOPHOMORE CLASS MEETING.- A meeting of the sophomore class will be held today October 28 at 7.30 p. m Upper Massachusetts to take action on the death of Argyll Fraser...
...LINN.SOPHOMORE CLASS MEETING.- There will be a me ting of the sophomore class on Monday evening, October 28, Upper Mass chusetts to take action on the death of Mr. Argyll Fraser...
...action taken by the Athletic committee in regard to the men who were responsible for the disgraceful conduct of the freshman nine at New London last May, will be approved by all. The captain and one other man have been forbidden to take part in any future college athletic contest. The penalty is severe, but in our opinion the offence deserved no lighter punishment. The action of the committee is important even at this late day, for it voices the disapproval expressed so manimously by the college last spring. It will, furthermore, effectually prewent any repetition of the matter...
...place in the editorial columns of the Advocate. That the rushes do no harm, indeed that they are rather good fun, is admitted but it is not probable that even this part of Bloody Monday Night will long exist in a place where all the tendencies of thought and action are as maturing as they are here at Harvard. It is rather a difficult matter to incite much class enthusiasm among fellovs who are made to feel more and more the longer they stay here that the division into classes is merely an arbitrary one, and means practically nothing...