Word: hearings
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...stroke is another problem which should be carefully studied, and the idea of first fixing a stroke and then training your crew to pull it, is sheer nonsense. We hear altogether too much about a thirty-eight, forty or forty-two stroke, and the men who advocate such a course have not carefully considered the matter. A crew should be trained to pull the highest stroke the men are capable of keeping up for the distance they are to row. If I should coach a crew of giants who proved themselves capable of holding a sixty stroke for four miles...
...department, Washington, D. C. Mr. Webster entered the service under competitive Civil Service Examination, but spent his vacation last fall in making campaign speeches. The New York Times noticed his first efforts as follows: Princeton, N. J., Sept. 26, 1884. Tonight, Mercer Hall was filled with college students to hear the first political speech of the campaign in the college Mr. W. G. Webster of Illinois, recently of Michigan University, spoke stirringly and in an eloquent manner. The meeting was enthusiastic and closed with college cheers...
...nine we would say that it is customary for freshmen to begin early in the year to write, if they desire to be considered candidates for election after the midyear examinations, when a freshman editor is taken on the board. So now eighty-eight and eighty-nine let us hear from...
Boys' colleges and girls' boarding schools are noted as being the nurseries and hot beds of slang. Indeed, we would really think something was wanted if we did not occasionally hear a slang word or phrase in the conversation of a college student. We are, to be sure, condemned without stint by purists and over-sensative people for what they call the murdering of the English language. There are slang words which are weak, puerile, nonsensical; but there are others which express thoughts with a greater force and clearness than do any words in good repute. For example, what word...
Sometimes we hear the learned lore...