Word: forme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...mettes. - The surprise of our English cousins on seeing this crew row would be a sight worth travelling some distance to see. In stroke, style, and training they are exactly opposite to what the English rowing-men have always been taught to consider "good form." What they will think of a crew whose habitual stroke, even for a three-mile race, is 45, and who, on spurts, run up to 48 and 50 with ease to themselves; who are utterly without "form" of any sort; who set at defiance many of the traditional rules of training, and yet manage...
...poor tubs that followed the boats at Springfield last year; and there is no doubt that they will, for as New London is a seaport town, it of course has greater facilities for getting good boats than Springfield had. A train of platform cars, with seats arranged in the form of an amphitheatre, will also keep along by the side of the boats from start to finish. Each car will hold about eighty people, and it would certainly be a good plan if arrangements could be made by which the students should have certain cars reserved for themselves The only...
...RECENT episode in a recitation in English 2, which has already received the editorial notice of the Crimson, has probably led many of us to form an opinion as to whether good reading, in such an elective as this in Shakespeare, is or is not necessary; as to whether it is merely a blessing for which, if he gets it, the instructor is to be humbly thankful, but to enforce which he is not bound to make an effort; or else an absolute requisite, and worthy of the greatest amount of time and attention. In other words...
...GREAT many of the woes which form the subject for complaint among undergraduates are imaginary; but there are some grievances which justify grumbling, and among these are the restrictions on our privileges which have been recently voted by the Faculty. We refer, in particular, to the new rule requiring Seniors and Juniors to take twelve hours, and Sophomores ten hours of elective studies throughout the year. We have been allowed, up to this time, to take as many hours each half-year as we wished, provided that the sum-total for the two half-years equalled twenty-four hours...
Unconscious of a form so fair...