Word: blade
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...enjoy than two fours or eights; the crews in proper form and well trained; rowing in time, with proper reach and grip; a clean pull through the water, feather without ripple; and, above all, good execution, or the knowledge of just when to apply the power while the blade of the oar is in the water. We cannot better illustrate this than by referring to the Yale crew of 1883. A more magnificent body of men physically never sat in a shell. But what was the use of this combination of strength, length of reach, and power of endurance, when...
Toward nine o'clock, one of these officers, the "Commander of the Commers," drew his sword, and slapping the flat side of the blade on the table, called for "Silentium" and introduced the first speaker, one of the Professors. This gentleman delivered a short address upon Luther and his work, and concluded by calling upon those present to sing "Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott." The whole assembly rose, and led by the orchestra sang the first verse of Luther's grand triumphal hymn. a few minutes were now spent in conversation and drinking of beer, and than the Commander...
Lost, probably in the Library : a J. Crookers three-blade knife, buffalo-horn handlde. The finder will confer a favor by leaving it at Brock and Leavitt...
Lost, probably in the Library : a J. Crookers three-blade knife, buffalo-horn handlde. The finder will confer a favor by leaving it at Brock and Leavitt...
...which the college courts are subjected. They are played on too late in the autumn, too early in the spring and too soon after rains, and above all, too much for any sod to stay good. Last year the two courts by the society building had scarcely a blade of grass left on them, and they were by far the best. Indeed, if we cannot have turfintact, "the barer the better" is the rule. It is folly then to expect the Tennis Association to provide good grass courts...