Word: kinds
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...general drift of the article. The writer goes on to give heart-rending accounts of the experiences of Messrs. Taylor of Harvard, Driscoll of Williams, Francis of Columbia, and several other unfortunates. He concludes with a peroration replete with high moral sentiments, and attaches to the argument a kind of "preventer backstay" in the following quotation from Scripture: "The Lord delighteth not in the strength of the horse, and taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man." As an equally apposite argument, though not of so high authority, I would suggest that haste makes waste; there are those that...
...outset has steadily decreased, until the condition of the crews is now deplorable. But want of interest has not been the sole cause of this, for, since the revival of athletics here, it has been decisively shown that to hope for success one must apply himself to but one kind of sport. This of course is the only correct principle, but it necessitates a larger number of men to keep up the interest in the several branches of athletics...
Such are some of the fruits of my listening, and if they seem somewhat trivial, yet it must be considered that no very momentous results can be expected from such a purely passive kind of eavesdropping. I have not, as yet, discovered in any footfalls the slightest whisper of scandal. If one "hears no good of himself," he at least hears no evil...
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...useless, if because of the dissatisfaction they have caused, we are led to adopt, permanently, the English method of a four-mile race in an eight-oared boat steered by a coxswain. It looks now as if our boating men would, after this year, never engage in any other kind of a contest. This state of affairs necessarily causes a revolution in the training of our University crew. The revolution has already begun, and great care should be taken at the outset to establish a high standard of work for those who are candidates for places in the boat...