Word: narrow
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...famous races for the "head of the river" usually take place during this month. The river is of course too narrow for more than two crews to row abreast, so, instead of such a race as our class races last Saturday, they are always "bumping races," as every one who remembers the account of the exciting contest described in "Tom Brown" will recall. The boats are placed in line, - the last a little above Iffley, - with a certain distance between them; at the signal, all start off, each trying to "bump" the boat ahead, before reaching the finish, which...
...course, will always keep to the straight-away race system, which is a better test, perhaps, of the relative merits of four or five crews which may race at one time; but under the conditions at Oxford - a narrow river and fifteen or sixteen competing crews - nothing better could be devised than the bumping races which have been rowed for so many years...
...College papers please copy, with the addition, "This low, dastardly, ill-bred attack is only a mark of the idiotic brain which invented it. Such vile, underhanded reptilian onslaughts can only have proceeded from a narrow, bigoted, Pharisaical fool." That, we think, is the usual style...
NEPHEW NATHANIEL, - You have strayed far from the narrow path, but, my poor boy, you have been sorely tempted. I myself felt Satan's influence last evening, and it was only after wrestling with the arch-fiend in prayer during the midnight watches last night that I decided to leave by the early train this morning for Smithfield Centre. I pardon your sins, my poor boy, and hope that when your vacation begins you will come to us at Smithfield Centre, that the good influence of Priscilla and myself may counteract the workings of the Devil...
...naturally connected with composition, is, by the present system, entirely divorced from it. Recitations in rhetoric are attended, themes are written; but what connection between the two exists in the mind of the student? Our English electives, too, are deficient, not in quality, but in quantity; they cover too narrow a field. English 1 and 2 are among the most valuable courses in the curriculum, - they are conducted by an instructor of no ordinary renown, to whom it is an inestimable privilege to listen; the courses in Early English are far superior to anything offered in any other college...