Word: behind
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...rowing machines in the Carey Building. No. 2's machine on the second crew has been placed on a line between the two stroke weights. Yesterday all the port men on the first crew took a turn on this machine. It is thought that by allowing the man behind stroke to row for a time directly between the two stroke oars that he will more readily than otherwise imitate some of the perfections of their stroke. In this way it is of course hoped to give a greater unity to the stroke of the whole crew...
...pointed out that Ash Wednesday was the beginning of Lent but that there was no end. The words forty days merely stood for an indefinite number. The observation of Lent was like the climbing of a ladder, one always reaches to a fresh rung and leaves the old one behind. Each succeeding Ash Wednesday is the fresh rung in the ladder...
...Godfrey Kneller was the first English portrait painter to achieve a great reputation. He left behind him a substantial fortune and five hundred unfinished portraits. Grace rather than likeness characterized his work. William Hogarth succeeded Kneller. He was at first an apprentice to a silver-smith and then an engraver. In 1727, then in his thirtieth year, he painted his first portrait. He became famous by his satirical representations of vice and folly. His picture, Marriage a la Mode, which now hangs in the National Gallery is his masterpiece...
...There are no public baths in the town. The Gymnasium has a few, but very few. In the CRIMSON I have seen more than one complaint of their deficiency. In this respect Harvard is far behind Yale, whose noble gymnasium is amply supplied. It has been said, and with some reason too, that Harvard has only to make its wants known when a benefactor speedily arises. I trust that the voice of a stranger may reach a rich man's ears and remove this reproach from a great University...
...College House.HOLLIS STREET THEATRE. - Beginning tonight, "The Girl I Left Behind Me' will be the attraction at the Hollis Street Theatre. It is seldom that so thrilling a play is seen on the stage, and yet it is absolutely free from claptrap and melodramatic effort. Those who saw it at the Columbia last year will remember the intense enthusiasm that is always aroused by the arrival of the cavalry to rescue the beleaguered party in the stockade, and how this feat was sccomplished without the dring of a gun. The attack of the Indians could be plainly heard...