Word: forme
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Columbia.- Efforts are being made to form a Rifle Club...
...subject for the next Senior forensic is apparently designed to embody, in a more or less permanent form, the results of certain thorough investigations recently made by some members of the class. The subject is as follows: "Is trial by jury the mode of trial best fitted to determine the truth and establish the right...
...whole, the rowing of the American four-oared crews could not compare with that of the English in finish, ease, and elegance, whatever it might do in brute strength, the class of competitors being so utterly dissimilar. No heed appears to be paid to coaching or to form, except in the College crews, - Yale, in particular, being a marked exception to the rule. This has been brought about by the captain of the College Boat-Club, who not very long ago paid a visit of some duration to England, and studied the rowing of the University crews, after which...
Since we are looking at rowing from a scientific point of view, let the men of the present time not only investigate the question of form, but let them go a step farther and solve a more subtle problem, the mutual effects of mind and muscle. Let them study hygiene, and be conversant with the latest hygienic discoveries. By following these suggestions, Harvard would soon become the cynosure of all rowing-men on your side of the Atlantic, and, what is of infinitely more importance, would regain and maintain her supremacy with the least possible expenditure of time and strength...
...singly, you do wrong in reasoning that you can carry them together. By Jupiter, you must have imbibed enough to bridge the infernal regions for the space of eight stades," - I fear he meant enough to patch - a mile, but am not certain; "in fact," he continued, "your symmetrical form is in jeopardy...