Word: facings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Like No. 5, he uses his slide before he gets his body reach. Drops out at full reach. Bends his arms too soon. Meets badly. Does not face his oar sufficiently and is apt to clip...
...Just as they were preparing to enjoy the warmth of an April sun, and were getting ready to begin their spring practicing, old Father Boreas "put in his oar," and says Nay. Well, it can't be helped, and the only thing to do is to put a good face on the matter, and confine practice to the gymnasium for a few days longer...
...text was taken from the 96th Psalm, the 9th verse, "Oh, worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness." In the old Hebrew usage this was taken in its liberal meaning, and a beautiful dress was considered necessary in worshipping the Lord. The beauty of holiness makes the plainest face look bright and happy; it makes the sick smile, and the old appear as if they had the crown of life. In old age a man's features are moulded by his character and the life he has led. The word holiness was originally wholeness, and without the latter idea...
...levelled by the rival venders at the students passing into Memorial, and the crowding and jostling, almost make us fancy that we are in a railroad station. Sometimes the student actually has to shove his way through the crowd, while the boys are thrusting papers in his very face, as if he were escaping from a swarm of hackmen. Will not some one inform these irrepressible youngsters that there must be better order and less noise...
Certain base-ball worthies at Harvard have met with a rebuff. When these fierce old ladies in boys' clothing invited Yale to join them in their little scheme for monopolizing public interest in college games, they received a courteous slap in the face, which, we trust, will have a beneficial effect. Such a scheme is all very nice and select, but it savors much more of the tea-pot than the open field. There is something melancholy yet comic in this endeavor to exclude from direct competition such a college as Columbia, for instance, whose agile nine are the present...