Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...pitched out, and the third scraped the airy vault of heaven with what seemed to every one a home run; but little they recked of the noble L. F., the heroic Blister; this gallant man, with measured step and song, froze to the sphere with one hand while running backward, and the Hod-lifters retired with no runs...
...meeting then adjourned. It was well attended, and the choice of officers promises well for the support of the Crew this year. The Treasurer stated that the balance in the treasury should not lead men to be backward in their subscriptions, as it was only equivalent to the fund raised by theatricals last year. We hope that the University will be prompt with its subscriptions, and save the officers of the Club the great annoyance and trouble to which they have been previously subjected...
...steadily and surely moving forward to a purely elective system, which will make Harvard a real University. The steps taken towards this system have now proceeded so far, that to go on is an absolute necessity. But in order that there may be no need of taking any steps backward, the Faculty wisely "make haste slowly" in their reform. For this reason we have no fault to find that all the courses for the Freshman year are still prescribed. The reform will reach this class in due time. We believe, however, that it is an error to require a greater...
...ascensions so plainly described here were only to a small height and in a captive balloon. Some, however, maintain that this amusement was not a balloon ascension at all but was diving after stones in muddy water) Span I was a three-legged race, and Gmn 6 a race backward. Various objects of interest were exhibited to amuse those who took no part in the active sports, and to coax away the pennies of the verdant. In one tent, N. H. 2, were the Living Skeleton and the Bearded Lady; in a second, Hist 5, were the Dwarf...
...begun. Old Mr. Brown, as excellent and wise as he was ambitious, placed the little George at one of the many and venerable Alma Maters with which the stony fields of New England have ever teemed, where he received a first-rate training. Yet he was as a youth backward, and only after repeated failures did he succeed in entering Harvard College at the rather late age of nine years and six months...