Word: forward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Endicott Peabody, following Professor Moore, spoke briefly on the words of St. Paul, "Forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth to those things which are before, I press forward to the mark of the prize of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus." St. Paul bids men forget and cast away old sins, and, not content with mere resistance of temptation, press forward from height to height to the goal of ultimate perfection...
...pile of timber in front of the new Architectural Building and four engines responded to an alarm that was rung in. The fire was extinguished very quickly, but a large crowd of students collected at once and surrounded the engines. The horses drawing the chemical engine started forward suddenly and dashed through the crowd. Bigelow, who was directly in front of the engine, was knocked down by the horses and was crushed by one of the wheels...
...near the water at the catch, and he swings too far back at the finish. Emory is very effective, but awkward. Blake, Foster and Smith all seem to lack a strong finish to the stroke. Goodell feathers under water badly, and McGrew is slow in getting forward. Gregg falls over at the catch and rushes his slide...
Edward Hanlan, the Columbia rowing coaches teaching an entirely new stroke at Columbia this year. The characteristics are a long slide forward, the knees bunched under the arm-pits, and a small body teach, with the body as erect as possible. As soon as the oar dips into the water, the legs are jammed down hand with the weight of the body on the loins muscles, and the arms moving in unison with the legs. The recover is slow and less jerky than in the stroke previously used. In the blade work, the hands are not dropped...
...north side of Beacon Street, whose objection grew out of the proposal to pay for the dam by filling in the basin in he rear of their houses so as to create land on which a new row of houses could be built. The plan now put forward does not contain this obviously objectionable feature. It is opposed to any filling in of the basin except such moderate strip as may be necessary to change the present unsightly alley in the rear of the water side of Beacon street into an attractive esplanade or parkway. In nearly every feature this...