Word: follows
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...arms straight until the upward swing is finished. Number one stops at end of shoot, and then rushes down; number two might shorten his swing forward; number three jerks his hands towards his knees when starting to swing up; number four does not let the arm and body movements follow each other continuously; number five uses his shoulder; number six bends his arms too soon; number seven uses his shoulders, and bends arms too soon; number eight lunges forward at the finish of the recover; number nine changes his grip, and does not sit up high enough ; stroke hangs slightly...
Yale has taken a stride ahead, and abolished the Greek and Latin salutatories. All well done. The practice has only antiquity to recommend it. And it is probable that not only not one in one thousand of those who have listened to the salutations this commencement season could intelligently follow the speakers, but that could an old-time Attic Greek, or a Ciceronian Roman listen to the modern 'commencement' orations in the original tongues, he would be beside himself with a laughter at the queer jumble. Doubtless the average senior Latin or Greek oration bears pretty much such a resemblance...
...continuing, as it were, the movement of the arms. In fact, at no instant does motion cease. When the body is upright and about to reverse, the arms take up the motion, and as soon as they are at rest, the body, in turn continues it. These movements should follow one another with such exactness that no break or halt should occur at any moment. A gentle, well controlled, continuos movement will also be the most graceful, and most efficient...
...demand for the Index will be probably very great for a few days. Eighty-Eight will doubtless follow the example of its predecessors in anxiety to "see its name in print...
...pulpit alone is lighted, while the poor beings below and above stand in the dim, sacred light of the painted windows and vainly endeavor to make out through the gloom the big letters of the psalm books. Much good eyesight is being uselessly squandered in these rash attempts to follow the service, while the "powers that be" calmly look on at the destruction...