Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...always used to keep a back...
...London is indeed no place for a long-drawn-out "regatta tournament," or series of races between several crews. Its distinctive recommendation as the scene of the annual Harvard-Yale race is its capacity for quickly sending back to their homes the people whom it as quickly attracts. Nor should the college oarsmen fail to remember that, as one of the newspaper correspondents said last summer, "a well-managed crowd and successful boat-race are inseparable," and that, though all the crowd are not graduates, all the graduates in the crowd suffer whatever it suffers. There are several hundreds...
...experiment of cutting off two days at the end of the Christmas recess has been tried now for two years, and we hope that the Faculty are ready to come back to the full two weeks. The impracticability of really beginning the term on Friday has, it seems to us, been fully demonstrated. In the first place, the students do not get back; the temptation to put off one's return to college until the beginning of the next week is more than average flesh and blood can resist. In the second place, the instructors do not hold their recitations...
...Hallo, old man!" he shouted, slapping me on the back, "subscribe? Not much; I read the Senator's copy." He called his chum "Senator" to gratify an abnormally developed fondness of nicknames. "Off? Sorry, Jack, but it 'll be all right in the spring...
...leaning o'er the arm-chair's back...