Word: bows
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Holyoke crew, as at present made up, is as follows; Brewster, '79 (stroke); Parker, '78; Willison, '77; J. A. Stiles, '77; Hastings, '78; Holmes, '78 (bow...
...pursuit are constantly the subject of conversation and discussion among the members of the school, and the stimulating and invigorating effect of this constant social intercourse among a large body of educated and highly trained young men cannot be overestimated." Is this much in advance of "the salutation, the bow, the courtesy," etc., of Neophogen? These improprieties in our Catalogue - embracing the commonplace, the bombastic, and some passages of a catch-penny character - must have come down to us from the time when Harvard was that much-talked of High School; now that she is a University, they should...
...evening at the cider cellar, sitting with Smith and Jones. But I cut him. I remember Buoy remarking, one day (his father, they used to say, raised more stock than any man in Tennessee)," Buckeye ain't a bad fellow, but doggone me, if I bow to a fellow that takes drinks with Smith and Jones...
...huge monster which may at any moment devour us all, is the hour-examination system. We all remember the first adoption of this system; how innocent the idea seemed when first presented to us, with what care it was nursed into stronger life. Did we not honor and bow down before it, and look to it for unnumbered blessings? Then it was a small and tender thing, but now it has grown, - ye gods, how it has grown! The plan as first broached had a pleasant sound in one's ears, and so long...
...well together to the turning-stake, Weld showing a little ahead on the first half-mile, with Holyoke a little in advance of Matthews. When near the stake, Holyoke and Matthews, who were to turn the same buoy, spurted; Holyoke took Matthews' water and turned first, but with Matthews' bow only a few inches from their rudder. Matthews, however, made a very bad turn, and lost about three lengths. Weld had the outside stake to themselves, but also made a bad turn, and did not take the water on the return till after Matthews. Holyoke kept the lead...