Word: faste
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...mishaps are to be guarded against. Moreover with the graduation of '83, a large number of last year's team left college. Soren, Kip, and Morrison, all winners last year, have left a great gap to be filled by new men. Yale has a champion bicycle rider and a fast sprint runner who will win two or three events for her. She will make every effort to increase her number of first prizes, and it behooves our men to do everything possible to keep the great cup where it is now. The large number of candidates for places is encouraging...
...trainer, therefore, should study his man's constitution as a doctor does that of his patient. Above all things, also, keep him cheerful and confident; the body is always governed by the mind. Make your man think he is sure to win, and he will do so if fast enough. If not, and you have followed the spirit of these simple instructions, you will at all events have the satisfaction of having done everything in your power to insure success; The best of trainers can do no more...
...third day commence gentle exercise, and be sure you have on plenty of clothing, or else a cold will be the result. In fact this is the period at which you will certainly catch cold unless you are very careful. Do not in any event try to run fast for the first three or four days. I find it best to merely prance about the first week, practicing style and gracefulness. If you are a very heavy, fleshy man, do not commence by loading yourself down with sweaters and trotting a long distance. Your muscles at this stage will...
...programme was a mere jumble of tunes. The Svendsen symphony in B is an example of what a certain class of modern symphony writers will compose and label with the name of Symphony. A name to which they can only lay claim thorough their customary division into slow and fast movements. In this symphony, while the fast movements are mere tunes in the jig style, the slow movements are mere rhythmical statements of a melody. There is no attempt at a regular structure or at a working up of the material, and this fault it is attempted to conceal...
...financial policy of the corporation is stated in the general purpose to spend every year all their income. They believe that well instructed young men are the best investment or accumulation which the university can make from year to year for the benefit of future generations. As fast as new resources are placed in their hands, whether from increase in the amount of tuition fees, or from the income of new endowments, the corporation incur new permanent charges...