Word: failings
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Tuesday, Jan. 23. - Twelve men present. Pull seven hundred and fifty strokes. Run two miles. The "time" has improved during the past two weeks, but the men are not well together on the shoot of the hands and the slide forward. Some of the men fail to get the proper recover. Loring reaches forward too much with his shoulders, does not sit up well at the finish, and is inclined to "settle." He shoots his hands quickly, but lets his body follow too fast. Legate fails to get enough body reach forward, does not always pull his oar "home...
...acknowledge that the writer of the piece has a more vivid imagination than we can pretend to. The comparison is ingenious, but the case is not made out. Both stories follow out the development of a principal character, as many other novels and poems do. Beyond this we fail to see any great similarity...
EVER since Mr. Huxley's visit to this country evolution has been the prominent topic of discussion in scientific circles. So various have been the opinions which we find in the papers from day to day, that a clear explanation of the theory could not fail both to please and to instruct many who have been puzzled by the conflicting opinions they have read...
...cold puff of wind drew across the Yard, and, tinkle, tinkle, a sharp metallic sound struck my ear. I turned, and saw that I was standing near the college-pump, whose tin cup the breeze was rattling against the post. "Well said, wise counsellor," I murmured, "if man fail, then malt...
...sore throats innumerable. I admit that it is impossible to have the recitation-rooms suitably warmed and ventilated, and am resigned to the colds and headaches I get in those cheerful places. But why there should not be a good fire in the furnace of the Chapel, I fail to understand. As long as attendance at prayers is made compulsory, and is not regarded by the powers that be as a luxury to be made use of sparingly by the student, it seems fit that they should take some care of the body as well as of the soul...