Word: cave
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Zoological Club will meet at the Museum this evening. Doors open: 7.15-7.30. Short papers on Eyes in Cave Crustacea; (2) Origin of Limb-buds in fishes and birds; (3) Assexual Reproduction in Turbellarians...
...program of the Symphony Concert tonight will be as follows: Mennelssohn. Overture, Fingal's Cave: otherwise known as "The Hebrides." Arthur Whiting. Concerto for pianoforte, op. 6 in D. Minor. Dvorak. Slavonic dances from the third and fourth series (first time). Rubenstein. Symphony in C, op. 42 (Ocean...
...eminent boating authorities predicted an exceptionally good crew in every respect. Even with such a crew as Harvard has, we will be greatly mistaken if both races which are to be rowed at New London this year are not as stubbornly contested as any which have ever been rowed. "Cave canem," as the Italians used jocosely to remark; which freely translated means, Beware of the facetious newspaper correspondent...
...single sculler which are not exactly in accord with the traditions of an eight-oar, such as keeping his back bent and other details. Bartol, the first substitute, pulls a ragged and uneven stroke. He does not sit up well to his work, but sags and lets his stomach cave in. He rows hard but does not utilize his strength well. Faulkner rows with a bent back and does not keep his shoulders under control, letting them come round his ears and then slump back. He rows fairly smoothly but without enough power. Bowen rows very stiffly. His back seems...
...replied Montmorenci, cuttingly, with a polite smile; "but I know a man who had twins so much alike that the only way to tell 'em apart was to send one to Harvard and one to Yale. Then one came back a gentleman and one a Connecticut rough." - [From the "Cave of Gloom and the Desert of Gall" in the last Yale Record...