Word: breaking
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...entertaining and instructive has therefore been started and it is hoped that they may prove so attractive to students and their friends as to warrant their continuance next year. The afternoon hour for which these talks are set is undoubtedly the most convenient time of the day. Evening lectures break into the whole evening. The hour from 4.30 p. m. to 5.30 p. m. on the other hand is usually disengaged. The regular college exercises are over and from the lecture men can go at once dinner. On Wednesday, April 10, at 4.30 p. m., two weeks from March...
...Cessation of building would be an abrupt break in the policy adhered to since 1886: Herbert, p. 424. - (a) Additional ships should be ordered by next Congress for - (1) Usual time for building a battle-ship is 5 years. - (2) Cramp can not construct the best in less than 2 1/2 years: Higgins in Cong. Rec. Vol. 27, p. 3576. - (b) Provision for - (1) Sudden shipwreck, cf. Reina Regente. - (2) Ordinary wear and tear. - (3) Filling place of older ships made nearly useless by modern improvements...
Interest centres chiefly in the final meeting Saturday, when Hoyt gives an exhibition in pole vaulting, in which he holds the Harvard record. Jack is certain to break Exeter's record in this event. Two Harvard athletes will give exhibition high jumps...
Since Mr. Hammond left, about two weeks ago, the crew has been without a regular coach, and consequently has shown little improvement. The men row a fast and powerful stroke, but they are inclined to be careless and their time is poor. Dunlop, at four, causes the worst break in the boat, and Chatman and Gleason, are not up to the standard of the rest of the crew. The stern four, however, row fairly well, and without any noticeable break in time...
...inches of slide and have shortened the very long body reach which was used on the water last fall. The stroke is quick and there is not a suspicion of any hang at the full reach. On the whole the time of the crew is remarkable, the only break at all perceptible being between No. 5 and No. 6. This together with a raggedness in the length of slide taken by different men, owing probably to a change in the order without a corresponding change in the rigging, causes the crew at times to go to pieces in places...