Word: ending
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...little weak. No. 3 might sit up a little straighter to advantage. No. 4 is apt to "sliver," that is, to turn his oar for the feather before it is well out of the water, which has a tendency to drag the boat down on his side at the end of each stroke. No. 5 has picked up his steering very well, and though it interferes, of course, with his rowing, the only fault to be noticed is a little too much arm-work. Of No. 6 we can only say that he is a new man, and will...
...first year of our much-lauded Boat-Club system has come to an end. Has it been a success ? We fear that many of those who have not been on the crews would answer, "No." On reading articles which appeared in the College papers when the system was first proposed, we find the benefits which were to follow its adoption described in the most glowing colors. It was to put every species and variety of nautical craft at the service of every student for the sum of fifteen dollars, and a hope was held out that this annual payment might...
...also for the loss of a name which ability and industry seemed to have marked out for a high place on their roll of honor. Having early chosen medicine as the work of his life, he had thoroughly devoted himself to it, making all his studies tend to that end. He had a mind extremely quick to receive and originate ideas, an untiring industry, a ready and decided judgment; his progress, therefore, in this, as in all that he undertook, was of the most thorough and promising kind. But conspicuous as he was for mental ability...
...end of the poem is so grievously bathetic that we forbear further comment...
...results of the entrance examinations at the beginning of the Freshman year, the students should be divided into " A" and " B " divisions. All obtaining more than 60% in any branch should be placed in "A" for that department, and all below in "B" At the end of each month or six weeks, on the result of an hour examination at the regular recitation hour, a new allotment of "A" and "B" divisions should be made. Semiannuals and annuals should take place as at present. The instruction in the "A" divisions would naturally be of a higher order than...