Word: fours
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...meeting of the Captains of the Boat Clubs on Tuesday evening, it was decided that there should be six-oared, four-oared, double-scull, and single-scull races on the boat-house course to-morrow morning...
...crews of the six-oars are to be chosen by lot from the twenty-four men who compose the four club-six-oars...
...present arrangement of the hours for meals, especially at this season, is least suited to accommodate the majority. So long as we recognize a Tabular View, we shall have but two unoccupied hours throughout the day, and these hours, from two to four o'clock, though the best for out-door exercise, are still quite unavailable while we dine at one, for it must be injurious to pull an oar or swing a bat so soon after eating. To exercise later is to be on the river or at Jarvis at sunset, and this in October is far from healthy...
...likeness to larger pictures certainly his, and the great inferiority of the latter to the former, render it very doubtful whether they are really his. Nothing very useful could be expected from Murillo, and the picture we have here (No. 6) is not of his best. Nor have the four pictures by Zuberan (Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4) more than an agreeable naturalistic richness of design and some peculiar though not refined merits of color; certainly there are none of the subtle qualities of the Velasquez head. Two landscapes by Salvator Rosa (Nos. 25 and 26) are interesting - especially when...
...last June was Professor Charles C. Everett. The subject was "The Gain of History"; or, as the author states more fully, "Do the changes of History imply corresponding Gains?" By History is meant the life of mankind since the Aryan dispersion. Are we better off than our forefathers of four thousand years ago? Before answering this question, Professor Everett seeks to remove certain prejudices. One of these is the natural belief that all is for the best, from which proceeds, especially in youth, an enthusiastic trust in progress; but, even retaining a faith in optimism, might we not reasonably suppose...