Word: gait
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...books. Cum bonis ambula, said Cato speaking of men, and one may say of books, keep company with the best. It was because the men of the century from 1550 to 1650 were confined to classic society in books, that their minds and styles acquired a dignity of gait and gesture which is now, in the fool's paradise of novels and newspapers, obsolete...
...varsity coachers, including Hartwell and Bolton, have given the freshmen much attention. Since winning the class championship the crew has been rowing two or three times a week in spurts with the 'varsity, the latter keeping to their long four mile stroke, while the freshmen took their two mile gait. They will row in a paper shell made by Waters on the same model as the 'varsity boat for this season. They will arrive at New London Saturday night, one week later than the Yale 'varsity...
...greater objection, is the impossibility of procuring a judge competent in all cases to judge fairly. He has too many men and styles to watch. One judge, on first seeing a man walk may disqualify him for a gait that another judge has come to consider as fair. R. S. Hale is an example of this, he being taken off the track in the intercollegiate games, yet allowed to walk in the Yale-Harvard games...
...Bemis '87, who walked the mile in 6 m. 59 1-2 s. Both Mr. Merrill, the judge of walking, and Mr. Lathrop allowed the record, but the greater part of the spectators thought Hale's style illegal. Hale has been disqualified a number of times for his peculiar gait, and it is doubtful if a judge unfamiliar with his style would allow...