Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...their university eight, but will have a week longer in which to prepare themselves The Yale crew are expected at their quarters on Wednesday, in time to see the Columbia-Harvard race, which they expect to follow in their own launch. In this way they will be able to form some idea of the style of rowing which their rivals pursue. Capt. "Bob Cook" will be with them as coach most of the time while they remain at the river. They are still imperfect in their new stroke and will require much attention at his hands. They average at present...
...efficient and apparently so anxious to please that we wish to call their attention to a little matter which it is in their power to remedy. We refer to the score cards now in use. We see no reason why they could not be printed in the same form as the pages of regular schoolbooks. As it is, the spaces following each player's name are so small that there is not room enough to score exactly the different points of the play. Only the crudest scoring can be readily done unless the spaces are properly marked. The slight increase...
...finely, and shooting through the fraw of the bridge below were lost to sight on their way down their river. This latter row was the beginng of a four-mile time pull down to the West Boston bridge. Durthe first minute of this row, the crew pulled in excellent form at the rate of 36 strokes a minute. The crew has made great improvement in the past two weeks, now rowing with greater precision and uniformity. Stroke, however, still has the habit of using his arms too much at the finish, and has not as firm a catch...
...essay published in this month's Century, says: "To the list of studies which the sixteenth century called liberal, I would therefore add, as studies of equal rank, English, French, German, History, Political Economy and Natural Science, not one of which can be said to have existed in mature form when the definition of a liberal education which is still in force, was laid down." The writer asserts that, although the meaning of the degree of Bachelor of Arts has quietly undergone many serious modifications, "it ought now to be fundamentally and openly changed." Through the force of custom, tradition...
...control which an average student had over the language was astonishing. When, for example, we remember the wonderful "knacd" the poet Addison had of reeling off good hexameter verse, a "knack" not his alone, but common to most of the then students of average ability, we may form some idea of the system pursued at that time. It is said that even in the present age in the northern countries of Europe, especially Denmark, if a foreigner is unable to converse in the modern languages, a limited conversation may be carried on in Latin, at least among the fairly educated...