Word: gaines
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...incoming classes are larger than last year, the Scientific School Freshmen numbering 168 and the Academic 351, a gain in all of about 40 over last year. President Dwight is abroad and is not expected to return till after Christmas...
...year is the stand off the stretcher from catch to finish. It is an element of the stroke in which Harvard crews have been very deficient of late years. The body swing is very long. The leg drive beginning at the catch with the shoulders thrown on hard to gain a strong position. The pressure is increased through the stroke ending in a hard finish. There is no lift in the stroke as there was last year but a horizontal drive throughout. The hands are shot away quickly and the body swing taken at the beginning of the recover...
...Cambridge Tribune has copied this story directly from the Boston journals. We should have thought that the editor of this enterprising weekly would have found three days sufficient time in which to prepare an original and far more truthful account. We feel that the report will more readily gain credence in the outside world when it appears in a paper published in Cambridge...
...Southard and Ryder of the Harvard Chess Club, and the cup will remain in the possession of the club for one year. According to the terms of the deed of gift Harvard will have to defend the cup successfully for eight years more in order to gain permanent possession...
...said Father Huntington, agree that a definite course must be followed to gain physical or mental education; but few realize that the spiritual life should be developed by scientific methods. Dogma has a bad sound to many; but it is simply the church expressing what she means by her worship. No body of persons who have no way of telling their object, can have so strong a form of corporate life as a body whose belief is fully stated...