Word: half
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...arrangement of the Prescribed Philosophy, Logic will not be taught the first half-year, nor Metaphysics the second. The hours set down for these studies on the Tabular View will therefore be disregarded, and all Juniors and Elective Sophomores will present themselves at one of the following times to arrange with their instructor permanent hours of recitation...
...clock she pulled to the starting-point, and a few minutes later Harvard took her place. At 4:16 the word was given, the inside crew getting the word first and the advantage at the start. Cornell was pulling forty strokes to the minute, Harvard thirty-six. When a half-mile was finished Cornell was a little in advance, which lead was increased until a mile and a third, when half a length of open water separated the two boats. At a mile and three quarters, Brandegee increased Harvard's stroke to forty-one, and slightly closed...
...associated with poverty, lest the 'digs' should all be poor men. That has not yet happened in this college. Out of the first eighty men in the class which graduated to-day only thirty were applicants for scholarships or beneficiary aid. That is, five eighths of the first half of the class were men whose parents or friends could provide for them. Out of the first fifty twenty-three only were candidates for scholarships. These facts prove that scholarly ambition prevails in good degree among that large majority of our students who do not feel the stimulus of impending want...
...three lengths astern, pulling 33. Yale kept a slow stroke during the entire race, and it was evident to any one who watched their rowing that they had not broken themselves of a bad habit of pausing, or "hanging" at the beginning of the stroke. For the next half-mile Harvard kept the same stroke; but at the end of the third quarter, when the crimson was four lengths ahead of the blue, they slackened to 34 strokes per minute, while Yale was rowing 32. At the beginning of the second mile Yale gained about a length on our crew...
...crimson eight, who were pulling a clean, even, and powerful stroke, which contrasted strongly with the splashing stroke of the Yale crew, went up to 38 to the minute, and kept it up to the beginning of the last half-mile, when they slackened to 37, which was their rate when they crossed the line. The men from New Haven pulled a plucky race, and stuck to their work manfully, though they could not have had any hopes of winning after the first mile of the regatta. They came in 44 2/5 sec. behind the Harvard crew, but even then...