Word: frail
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...firmly the Yale management has trenched itself behind the constitution of the Foot-Ball Association, and how little Harvard has to base its claims upon except the honor of the Yale management of this and last year-which, from the present aspect of things, appears to be a very frail basis. When the convention met this fall to arrange the schedule of games, nothing was said before it of the probability that the Harvard faculty would forbid the New York game. But the Harvard manager spoke to the captain of the Yale eleven on the subject and was plainly given...
...left arm. The third represents a lady, extremely beautiful, whose right arm is lying gracefully upon her lap. Like the sitting figure on an inferior funeral bas-relief now in the Central Museum of Athens, she is represented in the act of raising delicately from her breast the frail fabric in which she is enveloped...
...Harvard Canoe Club took place on the Charles river course Saturday afternoon, and proved a complete success. The weather was almost perfect and the stiff west wind blowing down the course gave an opportunity for each to show all the skill he could command in managing the frail crafts. The first event was the sailing race, in which six men entered. The breeze made things very lively at the start, but the canoes got off pretty well together. The rough water around Union boat-honse bothered the contestants considerably, and soon three of them dropped out. Dunham took the lead...
...thorough instruction in the practical matters of the use of the English language and the principles of political science and American history. When these gaps are well filled Harvard's free and liberal system will firmly secure to her the position which she now holds by a somewhat frail tenure, that of the foremost American universities. In spite of many faults and failures, she is already not far from what the ideal American school should...
...frail, but wondrous fair...