Word: broken
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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GROUND has not yet been broken for Sever Hall...
...what is called a boating-man, that is, I saunter down to the club-house every afternoon, select a shell, and try to select an oar - oarful task - from the buttonless, broken-bladed specimens now on exhibition; then I venture out for an hour's pull, returning in time to take a shower-bath, to dress, and to arrive at Memorial Hall about six o'clock. By that time the rare beef has all disappeared, and the waiters are generally hidden behind that mysterious screen where there are so many "evidences of things known, but unseen...
...heartiest wishes are that his successors may, for many generations, follow out as nearly as possible the admirable example of a captain set by F. W. Thayer. To Tyng the College extends her warmest praise, for his pluckiness in facing Ernst's swift delivery with his broken finger; at New Haven he appeared as a mountain of strength to infuse confidence into what Yale regarded as a forlorn hope, and New Haven knows full well how successful he was. Ernst demonstrated by his effective pitching that the loss of Tyng in the second game was the sole cause of Yale...
...HEMENWAY has made the needed corrections in the plans, the ground has been broken, and the workmen are now laying the foundations of the Harvard Gymnasium. By the kind permission of the gentleman who has made this gift to the College, we are enabled to print with this issue the ground-plans and a sectional view of the elevation, and though they may not furnish an idea of the building as it will look when finished, they may afford some conception of its dimensions and its accommodations...
...first quarter-mile Harvard was rowing 36 to the minute, and Yale was three lengths astern, pulling 33. Yale kept a slow stroke during the entire race, and it was evident to any one who watched their rowing that they had not broken themselves of a bad habit of pausing, or "hanging" at the beginning of the stroke. For the next half-mile Harvard kept the same stroke; but at the end of the third quarter, when the crimson was four lengths ahead of the blue, they slackened to 34 strokes per minute, while Yale was rowing...