Word: deeping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...crew of last year was also a powerful one, but did not win. The seniors are, therefore, not full of confidence, but view with zealous eyes any improvements made by their rivals of '86 and '87. The marked faults of the senior crew are a bad finish, and two deep a dip; some of the men settle at the finish, and rush the recover. They are now rowing as follows...
...down on the shoot, No. 2 takes too much water on the beginning; No. 3 has too violent a shoot; No. 4 don't pull his oar through to the finish; No. 5 settles; No. 6 has an imperfect finish; No. 7 swings back too far; stroke dips too deep at the beginning...
...stove, now undergoing repairs, less a hardship than it might have been; but the want of fresh water for bathing proved to be very disagreeable. As the floats were not yet in position, and the tide was low, the crews which went out were obliged to wade knee deep in the ice-cold water and mud. It was even necessary to push aside floating cakes of ice, which had collected in front of the platform of the boat-house. When fairly afloat, the boats ran considerable danger of smashing their bows against the halfhidden blocks of ice. The seniors went...
...making the walk in the meanwhile a regular quicksand. The end of the walk opposite Holyoke St. is still worse; the stones are sunken and uneven. and on the rainy days that are so common in Cambridge, one is obliged either to keep on the flagging, and go ankle deep in water, or step off the path and flounder ankle deep in mud. Now the expenditure of ten dollars would right this state of things: a small tile pipe would remedy the first defect, and a few hours labor straightening the stones would remedy the second. Let us hope that...
...seemed to my self to be wakened from a deep sleep. A being not of this world stood by my bedside. "Come," he said, "I am to show you all classes and conditions of men tonight." I followed him and he kept his word; but the knowledge of only one class remains fixed indelibly upon my memory, and this alone I can describe. We were in the vicinity of a great university. We entered an old-fashioned hedge-surrounded house and found ourselves in an apparently well-stocked library. A large open fire-place yawned at its opposite...