Word: actually
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...visitation is come. It is a dreadful thing to see the failure of a young life. We can forgive the child who does not grasp his opportunities; but we can not pardon the youth, who, surrounded by loving teachers and with all possible advantages, yet fails at his first actual trial. He may have had his temptations, but they should have been incentives to virtue. His failure is terrible. May God, looking down on us as He did on Jerusalem of old save us from such failures by revealing to us the time of our visitation...
...fence vault, for which there were five entries, was the first event, only three men were on hand however. F. L. Donlap Gr. with a handicap of 7 1-2 inches won the event with an actual vault of 6 feet 8 1-2 inches. W. B. Huyler B. A. A. second...
...regard to the actual rowing itself, the Englishman leans further back, and in finishing his stroke, is quite out of a perpendicular: he also brings his hands up to his chest before finishing his stroke and shooting out again. With us, on the contrary, the man ends his stroke while sitting up almost straight, just a very little out of the perpendicular and with his hands several inches from his chest. No matter how rapidly the English crew is rowing, the stroke must always be pulled through in exactly the same way. In this then, that the English crews...
...because of the excel lent manner in which they were carried out. Such events were the ladders and double trapeze. They were exhibitions rather than contests and from the point of view of the spectator, lost nothing in interest because the performers were not pitted against each other in actual competition. The tendency to introduce special exhibitions is not a bad one. Individual contests are naturally not to be discouraged, but it adds no little pleasure to see performances in which all participants combine to produce certain effects...
...inches. Putnam followed suit at 5 feet 9 1-2 inches but Sweeney and Paine both cleared the bar. It was then raised to 5 feet 10 3-4 inches which was cleared by both; but neither could clear 5 feet 11 3-4 inches. Paine won with an actual jump of 5 feet 10 3-4 inches, W. E. Putman '96, second, with an actual jump of 5 feet 8 1-4 inches; and H. M. Wheelwright '94, third, with an actual jump of 5 feet 6 inches. Paine enters Harvard next fall and his excellent record clearly points...