Word: knees
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...university crew is now rowing as follows: 1, Russell; 2, Colony; 3, Storrow; 4, Mumford; 5, Yocum; 6, Brooks; 7, Keyes; stroke, Penrose. Burgess is again disabled with a return of his old complaint, water on the knee...
...bounded back outside the goal. Some excuse for the demoralization of the Harvard defense during the first half of the game may be found in the fact that Drake, goal-tender was ill,-so ill that he had to be changed-and that Peabody was suffering from a lame knee. There was a lack of system, however, in the defense play, and to this, in part at least, the defeat...
...stove, now undergoing repairs, less a hardship than it might have been; but the want of fresh water for bathing proved to be very disagreeable. As the floats were not yet in position, and the tide was low, the crews which went out were obliged to wade knee deep in the ice-cold water and mud. It was even necessary to push aside floating cakes of ice, which had collected in front of the platform of the boat-house. When fairly afloat, the boats ran considerable danger of smashing their bows against the halfhidden blocks of ice. The seniors went...
...France. I can unite little fondnessess with conjugal love." Boswell must have been a unique sort of travelling companion, for we find again: "I got into the fly at Buckden, and had a very good journey. An agreeable young widow nursed me, and supported my lame foot on her knee. Am I not fortunate in having something about me that interests most people at first sight in my favor?" But whether this "something" was the lame foot or not, he leaves to our conjectures...
Gilman, '85, the anchor of the senior class tug-of-war team, has received an injury to his knee. It is feared that it will prove to be water on the knee, in which case he will be unable to pull on the team...