Word: fasting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...justly regarded as the picked youth of the country, many of them coming from the best families in point of culture and breeding, and from the best schools we have. They were all boys with blood in their veins, and brains in their heads, and tongues that could talk fast enough and to the purpose when they felt at ease. Many of them had enjoyed The Tempest-as who that can understand it does not?- but somehow the touch of pen or pencil paralyzed their powers...
...studies, and give more and more thought to their selections, the evils resulting from an inconsistent combination will grow less and less. A study of the records of the college for the last few years will convince any candid reader that this thoughtless union of irrationally connected subjects is fast becoming a very unimportant exception to the general rule...
...deem it necessary to warn our crew that they have a strong, yes, a very strong crew opposing them; the fact is too patent. But we would merely remind them that a gentleman visiting New Haven recently saw the crew row, and declares it to be very fast and very powerful. So much for these rumors which we do not seriously suppose could mislead anybody, yet to which we wish to call the attention of our men, that they may increase their efforts to win Harvard another victory...
...three upper class crews won. These crews are evenly matched in regard to experience, as three-fourths of the men on each crew have rowed before. The seniors, it is true, have the most powerful crew, but the juniors and sophomores are credited with very fast rowing...
...that an event of some importance in boating would take place yesterday afternoon, and consequently few saw the mile race between the junior and the university crews. The tide was flowing in, and the wind was blowing from the starboard side, so that neither of the crews made very fast time. In the start at the Brookline bridge, eighty-six, by rowing a very fast stroke, man aged to lead the university crew for a short time. Gradually, however, the superior skill and muscle of the latter crew brought it to the front. When the crews passed the Crescent boathouse...