Word: grasped
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...There remain three months to develop such a man. Our article this moring on the candidates says that a number of men are anxious for the position and mean to work for it. This must be done or we shall lose another championship which although not so near our grasp as was the foot-ball, is still within the range of possibility. Harvard does not wish to add another series of defeats to the performances of the last two years, and with proper spirit she need...
...very difficult work for the piano and Miss Aus der Ohe took the house by storm in her remarkable performance. Miss Aus der Ohe has won a most enviable position in Boston through her truly wonderful technique. The first movement of the concerts gave full scope to her powerful grasp, and the second to her exquisite and graceful touch. She won a well-deserved triple encore...
...side of the fence hand over hand. The sophomores pull them away from here and again push them into the street, taking care meanwhile, to remove their shirts if possible. The juniors then rescue the freshmen and take them a little farther along and give them another grasp on the fence. This goes on until the sophomores have reached a position along the fence so that the freshmen can go no farther. Rarely a freshman class go the whole length of the fence in spite of the sophomores. The two classes then proceed to the campus, the sophomores going...
...that a man may have striven sincerely for three years to graduate with a cum laude and then perchance failed on some knotty half course through a natural inability to cope with his subject. Some men's minds are so constituted that they find it all but impossible to grasp certain lines of study, and after long and laborious work at some difficult course they find a man who is their inferior in some other branch of work, far ahead of them in marks. The rule is impolitic, as it is a standing invitation to take only such courses...
...less is it possible to deny the merits of the sliding seat. Hanlan could never have made the time he has without this Yankee notion. It is now frequently balanced on glass balls that permit it to move with the least possible friction as the oarsman stretches forward to grasp the water...