Word: also
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...leaped into the water, Cameron unable to swim and seizing Sherman's neck. With extreme difficulty Sherman avoided being pulled under, and, turning about sought to grasp. Cameron; but the swift current had separated them, and he looked in vain for Cameron to rise. Hooker, meanwhile, also unable to swim, succeeded in turning over the shell, by which he kept himself above water until even this frail support began to sink under him, and with a desperate effort, he seized a boat which a boy by the name of O'Brien had put to the assistance of the drowning...
...stroke, getting the drag on the end, and keeping up the shoot of the boat, while the other crews each more or less snatched too soon from the water, and thus, besides losing a part of the stroke, which though not a hard is a very useful part, they also let their boats down too suddenly into the water, making them bury after the stroke and taking off the headway, just when it is most important that it should be kept up. It is indeed tempting in a race to hurry on to the strong part of the next stroke...
...German." I tried him on my limited stock of German, and found he did not know a word of it. That finished me, and I gave him up as a hopeless case. Some time afterwards it occurred to me to smoke a cigar. I offered him one also. He said that while it was not in the least disagreeable to him, his religion prohibited it. There is only one religion in the world which prohibits smoking, and that is the Parsee. They are fire worshippers, and consider smoking a profane use of fire. And so it proved...
...whole College, for they prefer an arrangement which will give each man the best opportunities for rowing to one which will train oarsmen at the expense of other members. These men are sometimes disposed to prefer their own convenience to the interests of the University crew, but there is also a feeling, though not very strong as yet, that an annual University crew is a very expensive amusement, and that, unless we are sure of victory, le jeu ne vaut pas la chandelle. On this account the crew should make it a point not to run into debt...
...also proposed by Mr. Blakey that hereafter the secretary of each club should give to those entitled, and desiring, to become members of the club a ticket; that they should present that ticket to him, and on payment of the money to Blakey himself, receive another ticket, admitting them to full membership. The secretary of each club can keep a list of members, and see that the right number of boats is provided...