Word: fortes
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...English university crews at present are made up as follows: At Oxford, bow, G. C. Bourne, New, 154 lbs.; No. 2, R. S. de Haviland, Corpus, 155 lbs.; No. 3, G. S. Fort, Hertford, 171 lbs.; No. 4, E. Buck, Hertford, 170 1/2 lbs.; No. 5, A. R. Patterson, Trinity, 181 lbs.; No. 6, D. Brown, Hertford, 174 lbs.; No. 7, R. S. Kindersley, Exeter, 185 lbs.; stroke, A. H. Higgins, Magdalen, 131 1/2 lbs. At Cambridge, bow, L. R. Jones, Jesus, 158 lbs.; No. 2, S. P. Smith, 1st Trinity, 156 lbs.; No. 3, P. W. Atkin, Jesus...
...Fifth Sophomore Theme is due March 23, to be followed soon by the Sixth. Subjects: A Criticism of the Gilbert and Sullivan Operas; The Story of Fort Sumter; Dickens' Faults in Style; Objections to Theme Writing; A Discussion of the Principles of the Structure of the Sentence and the Paragraph; The Aims of the Civil Service Reform...
...direct testimony. I noted all these points in a twinkling of an eye, for two years in a class like '82 develops one's eye for female beauty amazingly. My heart throbbed as she gazed at me in a pensive manner and sighed again. I resolved to storm the fort at once, and, bracing myself on recollections of conquests in the 'Port, I began: "O most bewitching stranger, know that you have before you a youth who for five summers has sought a maiden like you. A youth who wants to find a girl untarnished by the chromo civilization...