Word: evenness
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...learnt in this country; and there can be no gainsaying the manifest superiority of the oarsmanship of Yale over that of any other amateur crew in the States. It is still capable of amelioration, and, as strength, muscle, and pluck are not wanting, Yale crews may be made even more formidable than they...
DURING the last two weeks the Class-Day question has been carefully, and for the most part calmly, debated. The possibility, and even the advisability, of continuing the old class organization and fete day has been seriously questioned. Such radical differences of opinion have been expressed that now the expectation of a peaceful reconciliation exists only in breasts naturally buoyant with hope. The situation, as we understand it, is this: a large number of those who made up the coalition party in the class meeting, which caused the whole trouble, see now that they misjudged those whom they regarded...
...opinions expressed as to Class-Day matters under the heading of "Correspondence" must not be understood to be those of the Editors of the Crimson, even if no comments are made on them. It is the intention of this paper to be as far as possible thoroughly independent of society feelings while dealing with this subject, and to open its columns to any and every contributor. The letters speak for themselves, and are the best sources from which a clear idea of the present situation can be obtained. What definite action will be taken, it is impossible to predict...
...Cambridge, were most cordially reprehended, and that, to cover up the defeat if possible, it was at once resolved to bring into requisition the regulation Harvard tactics of bluster and complaint. . . . . We have the word of four of the most prominent of Harvard's players, that they had not even read over the Rugby Union rules under which the game was conducted. It was patent to any unbiassed spectator that Harvard was governed in the main by custom, and that her so-called surprise at Yale's method of playing was the result of ignorance on her own part...
...take the second alternative. But as I ground up on the subject, I became deeply interested in it, - a thing which had never happened before. As I only read the Advocate articles, I became dreadfully alarmed about the state of affairs existing here. The subject weighed on my mind even after the theme was handed in. I took a personal view of it too, and one day I found myself soliloquizing about as follows: "Yes; I am pretty far down. I never had an idea which did n't come from the Nation. I don't know anything about...