Word: long
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...year having had regular practice in the harbor during the fall term. The work during the fall consisted of the individual coaching of a few candidates in the pair-oars by Mr. Cook and later the use of the eight-oared barge. The work was very light and no long stretches were rowed, all rowing being done in the harbor inside of the bridge. Two innovations have been made in the University Crew tank this year: mirrors have been placed opposite each man in order that he may see himself row and correct his own faults, and the sliding seats...
...view of these changed conditions within the province of secondary education the ultimate principle on which Harvard College tends to act in the matter of admission requirements is this the College inclines to count for admission any subject which is taught in good secondary schools long enough and well enough to make the study of it a substantial part of a training appropriate to the pupil's capacity and degree of maturity...
...blizzard which reached Boston on Monday, according to the Boston Weather Bureau the most severe snow storm of the century in this vicinity will long be remembered as having affected the work of the University to any considerable extent...
...deeply concerned in all that concerns the honor and credit of Harvard University. It is a sense of personal gratification, whenever I hear that in scholarship, in public life, or in athletics, a foremost stand has been taken by a Harvard man. In athletics or in anything else, so long as something worthy of the honor of Harvard is in a man's keeping, so long as the man who represents Harvard carries with him the feeling that part of Harvard's fame is his, so long as he remembers that the next thing to victory is honorable defeat...
...Origin of the Union." by Professor Peabody; "The Union and the University," by G. L. Paine '96; "The Union and the Workingman," by James A. Stinson of the Riverside Press, and "The Principles and Methods of the Union," by President Ely. The publication, which is about forty pages long, will also contain pictures of officers and teachers and exterior and interior views of the building. Friends of the union will be especially interested in photographs of four of the men most connected with founding the institution: Robert M. Lovett '92, George L. Peirce '91, Carlos C. Closson '92, and Louis...