Word: backed
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...about five weeks of steady work on the river with the exception of a few days, when the water was too rough, and also two or three days which were taken off during the spring recess. The change form the barge to the shell has put the crews back considerably as regards time and form; '94 and '97 especially showing the change. The general averages of the crews show '94 to be the heaviest, '95 the lightest, while '96 and '97 are about equal in weight...
With the exception of Saturday and Sunday the 'varsity crew has been working morning and afternoon during the recess. Yesterday Col. Bancroft coached the men both in the morning and afternoon. In the morning the men went out in the shell for the first time this year. Waters went back to 7, and Blake to 5. The crew has improved somewhat and the men are rowing in this order: Stroke, Fennessy; 7, Waters; 6, L. Davis; 5, Blake; 4, Bullard; 3, Townsend; 2, F. Davis, bow, Purdon...
After a drop kick for goal on one down, the ball shall be brought back to the 10 yard line and not to the 25 yard line, as heretofore...
...though the latter is not rowing with the 'varsity, but is stroking his class crew. Considerable improvement was evident on Saturday when the men rowed in good form. Waters, who rowed at No. 7 when he first came out, proved too slow for that position and has been put back at No. 5. Blake has improved in his rowing and is doing fairly good work...
...back to its germ in Lessing. Carlyle and Emerson again have had a remarkable influence on their generation as kindlers of enthusiasm, lampada vitae, by constantly holding up a certain nobler ideal in contrast with the base connivances of our daily life, and by affirming the inalienable pre-eminence of the soul. Of original men, that is, of men who had an implicit faith in the validity of their own minds and the competency of their own natures, I suppose Montaigne to have been as striking an instance as could readily be found. He more than any other...