Word: going
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Secretary of the 'Varsity; they are then tubbed once or twice by members of the 'Varsity, the hopelessly bad ones weeded out, and about three Eights taken down the river every day for a week or so. These three Eights, by another "weeding" process, are reduced to two, and go into training (under two of their members as captains) for from two to three weeks. Then they row a three-mile race, and those that acquit themselves the best, without reference to their being in the winning boat or not, are selected to fill the vacancies on the 'Varsity...
...years, for example, five men have rowed in the Trials who were on the preceding 'Varsity crews. Of course, the selection is not definitely made so long before, quite a number of men - say sixteen - are put into half training and tubbed for some weeks before the 'Varsity go to Putney, and the next best four are kept in training at Cambridge for a week after their departure to supply the place of any man who may "crack...
...Spectator is goody, painfully so. Its philippics against the intoxicating cup are truly Swinburne-like. The Pegasus of the far North is evidently a teetotaller, - possibly his didactic flights and broken-winded canter might go far towards proving him a jackass. One of his most graceful curvets is recorded below...
...will the happiness described in this article go towards making a man, in any sense, happy? Suppose a man to succeed in limiting his desires to but one thing, - wealth, let us say, or knowledge; have we not enough examples to teach us that this one thing would never be reached, and that, even supposing it reached, the poor wretch would still have enough soul to render him miserable, "a little grain of conscience" to "make him sour"? And if we seek for happiness, for success, from culture, about which we are so fond of talking, shall we be more...
...safe where'er I go...