Word: bone
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which is certainly better than the first, will perhaps be acceptable to many. But this course is also open to objections, since for all those who would get breakfast after prayers (and this number would perhaps represent the majority) there would be left only the second choice, the picked bone. The first plan has positive faults, the second only negative virtues...
Rowing, as practised to-day, is a science, and must be studied as such. Crews may differ from year to year in bone and muscle, but these are differences over which we have but little or no control. The energies of Harvard's leading boating-men should, then, be directed to the manner of rowing, or to what the English call "form." Much has been said and written about the famous "Harvard stroke." I do not hesitate to brand such trash with the name of buncombe, and I earnestly beg Harvard's aquatic chiefs not to be beguiled by like...
...dispute, but the play soon proceeded, the Canadians still acting on the defensive. About twenty minutes after the game began, an accident occurred which seriously marred our thus far uninterrupted pleasure. Mr. Whiting, in an almost hopeless attempt to rush through three men, slipped and fell, breaking the smaller bone of the right leg just above the ankle. Fortunately a surgeon was near by, and Mr. Whiting was immediately removed from the field and properly cared for. Fourteen men, - one of them a substitute, - no goals on either side, and an hour and ten minutes to play. The game went...
...These men are good and true. They are the bone and sinew of our people. In them is found that grand American intellect which, unlike the faltering mind of the tyrant-ridden European, perceives the truth and will not wait to hear it disputed. In them is found that noble energy which advances the cause of truth when truth is once perceived, which turns a deaf ear to the sophistical arguments of unprincipled supporters of a state of things which the progress of the modern world has at last made unendurable, and which, having attained one great end, does...
...through Cambridge Street, the colored gentry seemed to appreciate the sweet negro melodies which have been brought in vogue of late by '77. For some unaccountable reason the singing subsided as the party drew near the "Port," and there was a discussion what it was that, bred in the bone of the "Port peeler," made him so different from his brethren of Boston. But the party only saved their breath until they reached the Yard, when they gave the nine cheers, for the last time, for the Athenaeum...