Word: impetuses
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...awestruck couple. Six times I had swept round it like the breath of the wind; now, for the seventh time, I was approaching it. I could no longer control my machine. Straight towards the post it rushed. I could not leap from it; I could not stop its awful impetus. A doomed man, I was hurled onward to my fate. I closed my eyes, and thought of Appleton Chapel. Crash!! and in an instant I struck in the middle of my back, straight across the mighty, quivering shaft, and such was my momentum that my lank form immediately adapted itself...
...take elocution as well as any other study. We also expected to learn the reasons for the poor accommodations given to the students of speaking this year. Can it be that President Eliot has no very high estimate of the study of elocution? or does he regard the great impetus that has been given to it lately by the students themselves as a mere ephemeral matter? We prefer to believe that it was oversight on the President's part that led him to overlook a study in which more than one hundred and seventy-five men are directly interested...
...custom of class races in the autumn, the principal of which are the liability to bad weather, and the shortness of time that can be had for training; but these are more than over-balanced by the advantages that are derived from the practice. It gives an impetus to rowing, trains men to row a race, and affords the captain of the 'Varsity an opportunity of examining men who may become candidates for a seat in the University boat...
...having some system by which the Captain of the 'Varsity can have an opportunity of selecting his crew from the greatest number of possible candidates in the autumn is recognized by every one, and it seems as though the system on trial this year will be satisfactory. The impetus given to rowing last spring proved the success of basing the contest on class feeling, and it is to be hoped that this may be increased by the race to-morrow. Since a great deal depends upon the support given to their oarsmen by the members of each class, a large...
...Under Dr. Sargent's instruction the utmost will be made of the advantages which the new Gymnasium affords. Men will not refrain from training through fear of physical injury, nor will the more ambitious be liable to injure themselves by overwork. The result cannot fail to be a fresh impetus to our athletic sports. We hope, too, that many who have not been accustomed to devote time to gymnastic exercise will do so now. The double attraction of a new building and a professor of hygiene ought to make all students seek the Gymnasium. At all events the number...