Word: keeps
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...Prospect Union Association meeting this evening deserves the personal notice and attendance of all who are interested in any way in the kind of work the Union undertakes. The association offers a chance for help from those who cannot give their personal service to the work; moreover it will keep itself alive to matters of kindred interest to the work at Central Square. Above all it will connect the college more intimately with the outside work. Everyone caring for the objects or the new association, will contribute largely towards its ends by joining at the meeting this evening...
...spared to teaching the men the finer points of the game. It will be hard work throughout but an exceptionably good chance for anyone to learn to play the game as it should be played and the experience he will gain, if he shows enough promise and energy to keep up with the work, will be of great value to him next fall, either as a candidate for the 'varsity or class elevens...
...Faults of the crew on the whole are that they fail to get around the water on the catch, keep poor time, are slow with their hands, and in starting their slides, are inclined to rush the last part of their recover, and do not pull their blades through at the same depth...
...discussion of the various objections to the German system which present themselves most prominently to a citizen of the United States. In finishing, Professor Peabody remarks that the American people, who are certainly the quickest-witted of the nations, will not long be so dull as to keep a protective tariff on our way of municipal work for the sake of party politics. It may be a wise policy for us to shut out of the country the importation of good Saxon stockings, but at least we might have free trade in good Saxon ideas...
...four-mile course can be obtained, sheltered from all except the east winds, so that smooth water is practically assured. The current runs at the rate of but three miles an hour and as the stream at that point is over a mile wide, all the crews can keep to the westerly shore without any one of them being favored by the channel. At Poughkeepsie the stream does not afford a three mile stretch anywhere north of the Poughkeepsie bridge unless the crews row across the current. The river is comparatively narrow, so that the crew having the mid-channel...