Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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There is certainly an attitude of individualism, of selfishness in the Harvard spirit; this is a good thing to a certain point, but far better it is to sink one's own personality for a common object. We are all one huddle of sticks and if one breaks we all break; the surest way for one to raise himself is to raise and honor the college. It is not the man who only tries to benefit himself, but he who now fights best for Harvard, who makes Harvard his ideal, that will later make his country his ideal. Sometimes...
...order to take a photograph of the hand to detect a bullet for instance, or a piece of glass, at least two photographs should be taken-in the obverse and reverse portions of the hand with respect to the sensitive plate. In doing this one is liable to break two tubes, which cost at present ten or twelve dollars apiece...
...retained for some time, then two of them will be dropped. Fennessy is coaching the men at present and an effort is being made to secure a permanent coach. The work of the crew lacks snap; the leg drive is weak, the shoot is slow, and the arms break before the legs are down. The order is: Stroke, Kales; 7, Forbes; 6, Shepard; 5, Derby; 4, Greenough; 3, Dorman; 2, Frothingham; bow, Fairchild. The extra men are Rice, Fox, Barrett and Lincoln...
...taken with the rays that come through the aluminum, for the reason that the aluminum absorbs hardly any rays while the thinnest glass absorbs an enormous number of them. The objection to the aluminum window is that the atmospheric pressure of 15 pounds to the square inch would break the tube...
...been reduced to nineteen men, but in a few days more it will be further reduced to sixteen. From now, strict training will be maintained and a regular system of work mapped out. The men are now practicing the full stroke with the exception of the arm break...