Word: cools
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...many respects the coming month is one of the best of the year for outdoor sports, especially for canoeing. The cool afternoons ought to serve as an inducement for many of the lovers of the double-blade to launch their craft on the river and start for a pleasant paddle up toward Watertown, or down into the rougher water of the harbor. The Canoe Club made a good beginning last spring, by holding a successful regatta; why cannot the experiment be repeated this fall? There can certainly be no better way to arouse interest in the sport. The number...
...digest our food before rowing. On assembling around the table we were greeted by the familiar face of Robert Churchill, the cook, and two dark satellites of his whose features were unknown to us. About two hours after dinner, everything being ready, we took a short row in the cool of the evening...
...subject to write upon. But we doubt if it is so pleasing for the students who toil on their examinations in these rooms. It seems to be a regular feature of examination rooms to be too cold when we want them warm and too warm when we want them cool. It may be that students, when under the strain of an examination, are very difficult to please, and therefore their complaints should carry little weight, but we always feel so much compassion for the proctors during this trying period that we think a little more care might be taken...
...Clipper says of the Lehigh tug-of-war team at the games, that their previous work gave them courage, which did not prevail against the superior ability of the better-drilled Harvards, whose anchor, cool as an iceberg, exercised intelligent control over...
...with one another's style of play, and tends to make the nine a unit. The games with the Brown freshmen and Andover Academy are different. The playing will be more even, and '87 will have a chance to learn, perhaps, that it is necessary to keep cool when the score is close, and not get "rattled" and go to pieces if at any time their adversaries have a lead in the score. '87, with the material which it has, ought to come out of these next few games with a good clean record of victories...