Word: formerly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...depressing, - a result to be deplored, seeing that the spirits of a crew should be raised by all legitimate means. I have heard many a boating-man say that he could pull a stronger oar in the repose of vacation than during the fatigues of the racing season. In former times Harvard men were proverbially overtrained, rarely coming to the starting-point with that buoyancy so essential to the sustained efforts of a hotly contested race...
...chance for it to do something. The success of their new effort rests largely with the undergraduates not members of the club. If a sufficient number of them become subscribers in the manner proposed, they will unquestionably advance their own interests and raise the club from its former anomalous position to a place of practical usefulness...
...catalogue for 1876-77 made its appearance on Wednesday evening with its usual amount of valuable information. It is printed more closely than former catalogues, and some of the changes in form are hardly improvements. Compared with former years the present showing is a good one. The undergraduate department has been made up, during the last four years, as follows...
...easy to say that this man has given so many hours to this subject while another has devoted to the same thing either half the time or twice the time. The question I want to ask is whether it follows as a logical conclusion that in the former case the second man has learned but half as much as the first, and, in the other case, twice as much...
...SHOULD like to point out to the Seniors a singular insatiability of former classes in the matter of Class-Day orations. Not content with sitting in the Chapel for two hours, on what is well known to be the hottest day of the year, and listening to an orator who seldom has much to say that is worth hearing, they have been in the habit of adjourning to the open air to solace themselves with another oration...