Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...slow stroke - about 27 to the minute. As a general thing the form is excellent for this time of the year. The catch is firm and sharp, and the time in general is good, although there are one or two men who are apt to get tired, and break up the uniformity of the stroke. The slides are held very well, with a few exceptions. Seven's time is often poor, and bow has not yet settled into an easy motion...
...into such disrepute that it is dangerous to use it seriously. It would be a lamentable fact if the air of a university town were not a little rarified, if there were not that purer ether and diviner air around us; but people laugh at the idea, and arguments break like straws against ridicule. But this atmosphere is very apparent, let us say at Cambridge, England, where each college has its characteristic feature, and hence offers peculiar inducements to men of this or that taste. To be more specific, at Cambridge there are seventeen colleges, differing in the advantages offered...
...recent incipient fire in Holyoke ought surely to arouse the authorities to a sense of their responsibility. If such a fire should break out in the night-time in any of the college buildings, the disaster might include life as well as property. A number of these small fires have occurred during the past few years, but it would seem as if the lesson they teach would never be comprehended by the authorities. Are they relying on a system of chances, waiting until there is but one more chance left for a serious disaster, or will they never be convinced...
...middle of May. Again, training becomes very irksome when continued too far into the summer, especially when the men know that lost time must be made up by excessive grinding. Finally, it would be better for the freshmen crew to have the race earlier, so as not to break in upon their training for their more important contest-their race with Columbia...
...seems destined to break the old tradition that "even" classes are not usually as prominent in college enterprises and athletics as the "odd" ones. '84 has already done much towards that end, while it must be said '85 has done little to counteract this result. Either '85 must "brace," or, when '83 has graduated, all honors will rest with...