Word: forwards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WORK on Stoughton is being pushed forward rapidly, and a new roof is already partly in place...
...erroneous ideas. Great injustice and harm has already been done the College in this way by the public press, which is only too ready to seize upon such rumors, especially when they come from a paper which claims to represent undergraduate opinion. If the Echo continues to be straight-forward and sensible, and if it will avoid personalities and the vulgarity of the Yale Daily News, it will undoubtedly recommend itself to the best class of our students: all will want to read it; but whether all will buy it or not, time alone can determine. Harvard is notoriously inferior...
...Moses King confined himself to his proper sphere, the publication of guide-books, we refrained from making any attack upon him, even when he had the effrontery to put Harvard College on the title-page of his books. But now that he has invited criticism by coming forward as the sole editor of an alleged Harvard paper, we feel that we owe it to those of our readers who may be unacquainted with his position in college to expose him in his true colors. Mr. King is not, in any proper sense of the word, a Harvard student...
...signified their intention of rowing. This number is evidently far smaller than it should be, for an accident to even one man would prove serious. There are, however, more than eight men at Harvard capable of pulling a good oar, and their interest in her success should bring them forward. Those who have not yet rowed in a race might, by faithful training, acquire enough skill and experience to be eligible for the Crew by the end of the year, while those who have already rowed should consider the peculiar position in which we are placed, and lend their assistance...
...strong. Instead of continuing the slide to a definite number of inches, the whole is used, thus giving the legs sufficient opportunity to do their work. When the men are ready to receive the word "go," the seat is well under the body, the back and arms inclined forward, and the head in position to throw back, the moment the word for the start is heard. The whole stroke is what is known among sailors as a "fore and aft" swing...