Word: exceptions
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...opinion have been equal, at least, to their own, came to the same conclusion about five years ago. The petition sent to the Corporation says that the interests of the students demand the recess; we may say that the well-being of the instructors demands it still more. Except the very hardest grinds among those who are working for a summa cum, none of us begin to do the amount of work that is performed by those who teach us. It can be shown, we think, that in proportion to their whole number, more instructors than students have broken down...
...four-oared instead of six-oared shells. The fear that this backward step would be taken was one of our strongest reasons for leaving the Association, and now we see that our apprehension was no idle fancy. We shall have next summer three separate intercollegiate contests, and every college, except Harvard and Yale, will row in four-oared boats. At the time of our fall races we said that the action of the Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C. in making the six-oared crews inferior to the four-oared was bad for the rowing interest...
...whole, the rowing of the American four-oared crews could not compare with that of the English in finish, ease, and elegance, whatever it might do in brute strength, the class of competitors being so utterly dissimilar. No heed appears to be paid to coaching or to form, except in the College crews, - Yale, in particular, being a marked exception to the rule. This has been brought about by the captain of the College Boat-Club, who not very long ago paid a visit of some duration to England, and studied the rowing of the University crews, after which...
...Harvard Art Club has passed a resolution admitting any student of the University, upon payment of one dollar per term, to all the privileges of the Club except the power of voting and the right of attendance at official meetings...
...least want to know what happened in the past, except as it enables me to see my way more clearly through what is happening to-day." - Spectator, October 7, 1876, page...