Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...owing to press of college work. Freeborn, Troy, Slade, Tatum, Spillman, and Roe have all rowed on former crews either in this country or England. Beside these, there are several promising men, some of whom have been members or substitutes on class crews. With six of the old men back again in the boat it is felt that a strong crew will be turned out this year...
...rowing at four and three respectively. Mills weighs 185 pounds. His legs, however, are rather short and consequently his stroke has a tendency of being very short. Marvin at 7 is a steady man but has a tendency to use his legs in a weak manner and swing back towards...
...larger rather than in the narrower sense that the subject will be treated in the present course of lectures. It the announcement that the subject was to be "Bimetallism Since the Discovery of America," you will be altogether discouraged when told that the present lecture goes back to the foundation of the world. But the reality is not so bad as the sound; for although there is a wealth of allusions, there is little in the elasical literature of antiquity that bears importantly upon the subject. The Hebrew Scriptures abound in these allusiouns. Abraham paid the children of Heth four...
...hundreds of millions of our money. This is the all important fact in the history of the precious metals down to the Macedonian conquest. That it should have reached into the hundreds of millions is a miracle, and it was to contemplate this phenomenon that this lecture goes back to the early ages. How was it possible that such a result should be attained? Why should so large an amount of labor have been put into this form of wealth, when the conditions of human existence were so strait and painful? Why, when bread was scarce almost to the point...
...applicants for positions in each of the boats have been divided into two squads. One squad begins training at 3.30 in the afternoon and the other an hour later. The exercises consist of movements to develop the back, chest and arm muscles...