Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Dana, Sturgis and Hartridge are the only new men. Hartridge rowed on last year's freshman crew at Yale. They are the lightest crew on the river. They jerk in their arms at the finish and do not sit up well. Their watermanship is very good. They keep excellent time. The men are very quick and row with a great deal of dash and spirit. Mr. W. A. Brooks has been coaching the crew...
...freshmen are the heaviest of the class crews. They do not get their legs into the stroke. There seems to be no life in the boat. They overreach badly. They do not keep a firm grip on their oars, and fail to get the benefit of the end of their stroke in consequence. Their time is bad. They are extremely careless and have had individual faults. The stroke which they have been practising is much too slow for a race. Mr. Hooper has been coaching the crew of late. Alexander, the stroke of the University boat, has also been giving...
...wages must fall or the industry cease. Why, it costs but seventeen and a half per cent. more for the needs of life here than in England, while wages are sixty-two and a half per cent. higher. Clearly no reduction of the tariff could be made which would keep the proportion between wages and cost of living so favorable...
...object of a man's entering college, but also become exceedingly obnoxious to a large majority of the class. The only way to crush out this disgraceful disposition on the part of a few is for public opinion to make it so hot for them that they will either keep away entirely or be constrained to act decently and respectfully when they do appear in the class-room...
Although the provisional list of examinations has appeared to the gratification of all concerned, there are still many fortunate mortals who are anxiously awaiting another list of examinations, familiarly known as the "makeups." It is a most barbaric mode of torture to keep individuals, who through no fault of their own have to take their mid-years this spring, in complete ignorance as to the precise date when they must prepare themselves for the welcome ordeal. They are all longing to vindicate themselves before their instructors for absence during the last general examination, and it is only fair...