Word: even
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Oxford will average about as wide as a length and a half of a shell. The Cam at Cambridge is much narrower, so much so that two eight-oars can pass in safety only by each paddling very slowly. There are some parts of it where they cannot do even that. If, therefore, these English universities have developed such a prolific and far-reaching rowing spirit, and turned out so many crews, it is not because they have been favored by exceptional racing water. The very necessity of the bumping races, in vogue at both, bespeaks the difficulties with which...
...games on Saturday afternoon promise well for the success of the Mott Haven team in the coming meeting with Yale at New Haven. In the first event on the program, the 120 yards hurdle race, Garcelon began by lowering the Harvard record to 16 1-5 sec., and even then only just succeeded in winning from Munroe. Later he did the 220 yards hurdles in the fast time of 25 1-5 sec. Merrill also did admirably well in the two dashes, winning both, the first in 10 2-5 sec., the longer one in 22 1-5 sec. Phillips...
...usefulness in after life; secondly, how much money does he need to enable him to secure a college education. We believe that the first question cannot be answered definitely and that the attempt to answer it by reference to college rank is particularly disastrous. Who can tell, or who even honestly thinks he can tell, of how much use a student will be in after life by counting the A's and B's which he secures in his courses at college? And what justification is there for giving one man a hundred dollars more than his fellow simply because...
...have his wits shaken up and put in motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement in his own bodily economy that set his fancy going, and it is wonderful into what a fairyland of agreeable and even profound suggestion he contrived to blunder, through the bypath of a pain in the stomach or a fall from his horse. Montaigne more than any other, perhaps, carried the substance of his thread, as the spider does, in himself, and each of his Essays is a kind of web wherein...
After little unfavorable comment on the recent inconsistency of the Faculty with regard to the nineteenth of April, the Advocate in its editorials goes on to a consideration of some important difficulties of the present athletic situation. The gist of the writer's idea is that even if the authorities are convinced of the evil of the present system of athletics, they should proceed carefully in choosing a remedy, lest they crush the symptom and leave the disease untouched. Above all they should beware of weakening the main source of the old "college feeling," which the intensely individualistic tendencies...