Word: formely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...race cannot take place in any event until the middle of August. The contest with Harvard occurs about the first of July, and the crew would not sail for England until a week later. After landing the men would require at least three weeks practice to get into good form and overcome the effects of the voyage. Special attention would also have to be paid to becoming thoroughly acquainted with the river, the current of which may be of great advantage or disadvantage to a crew. Should the eight go abroad, it will be accompanied by two or three substitutes...
References are as follows: Nation, vol. 37, pp. 90 and 105, and vol. 38, p. 138; form, pp. 277-292; Gardiner G. Hubbard in No. Am. Rev., vol. 137, pp. 521 535; W. A. Phelp in No. Am. Rev., vol. 143, p. 35; Pop. Science Mo., vol 19 p. 402; British Quar...
...nearest approach to perfect symmetry that it is possible to attain. The calves are a trifle small and the insteps somewhat flat; but for these slight deficiencies and the fact that the upper and lower leg are a few centimeters short, the lower extremities would be perfect in form. The upper and forearms are too large for the body and limbs, and a trifle inconsistent in themselves, the waist being relatively greater in circumference than the elbows. The falling off in the depth of the chest is marked, dropping, as it does, from the 80 per cent...
...added, is to be deterred until a year or so before the first class graduates. There are to be no dormitories, at least for the first two years. Mr. Clark believes that for the present none are needed, as he expects to draw his pupils mainly form the young men of Worcester who either do not care to leave home to attend college or whose means would not permit them to do so. He offers to such men the advantages of the larger colleges while the attendant expenses are much smaller. It is expected that the first freshman class will...
...part already built was to be but one third of one side of the proposed building. This would make each side three-eights of a mile in length. To conceive the plan, imagine a building the depth of Sever built in the form of a square, each side of which was three-eighths of a mile in length. The area around the outside would be a mile and a half...