Word: brace
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...runner brace w'en de ball am passed...
...recently gone to the training table as substitutes. The crew leaves for New London on the 19th. The crew are rowing in poor form and show very little interest in their work. As only about two weeks remain before the race, it is to be hoped that a decided brace will take place in the rowing of the crew. The loss of Borland has undoubtedly greatly crippled the crew; still, with faithful work, there is no need of discouragement. A few individual faults need correcting, especially in the bow and at number six. The principal fault of the crew...
...claims that he knows a professor at Harvard who writes slashing editorials, and he "reckons" that other universities also afford writers of force and culture for the press. As to writing plays, he thinks that every attorney's clerk, certainly every Harvard or Cambridge graduate, has at least a brace of plays. But no one will produce them. Few will read them. Yet, so far from being dull or worthless, they are often great. But they are fashioned after the Greek, or after Shakespeare, and out of date...
Princeton, it is said, is taking a decided brace in lacrosse. The team this year will be chosen from the following: J. A. Hodge, Jr., captain; C. Hewitt, P. L. Rieman, S. Egbert, C. R. Spence, L. Riggs, Jr., E. H. Rudd, R. McKnight, S. J. Poe, G. W. Gilmore, R. J. Travers, H. W. Hall, A. Hardcastle, W. R. Blakemore. Besides the above there are 24 freshmen practising for the '86 team next fall...
...ourselves lose sight entirely of the prominent and well known fact that we are enjoying educational advantages unsurpassed by any in the world, and that there is no place in the world where to enjoy these advantages the student has more pleasant and agreeable surroundings, customs and sports to brace and cheer him after becoming fatigued by hard mental labor. I say the above that all of your readers who chance to run through this article may, as they follow the description of Paris university life, imagine themselves for the time being over here taking a cursory retrospective view...