Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...hung badly at both ends of the stroke, they slumped on the finish, their time was poor, and they failed to get in their weight. It can not be expected that a freshman crew will row in anything like perfect form; but after making due allowance for this, the outlook was discouraging. The men seemed to work hard and conscienciously without making much improvement...
...outlook for the crew is promising. The crew is not up to the exceptionally high standard of the '87 freshman crew; but on the other hand the Columbia '88 crew is inferior to their winning freshman crew of last year. The rapid improvement which the men have made during the past week, makes us believe that '88 will follow '86's example, and will win the race with Columbia...
...annual race between Harvard and Yale is to take place at New London on the 25th instant. From the present outlook it seems as though Harvard would win.- Boston Record...
...ancient rigid requirements of classics, Mr. Curtis says "no college can justly plume itself upon superior fidelity to the classics because it insists that they shall be a bed of Procrustes upon which every student shall be equally stretched." And yet he does not see any very desolate outlook for the future of the classics. The classics will still be studied as long as there are students who have a fondness for such studies in languages "as come through a large familiarity with the ancient classics...
Last fall when the candidates for the university crew met for the first time in Capt. Storrow's room, the outlook was not very encouraging. There were present only two men of last year's crew, while the most available men among the others were rather light in weight, and had but one year's experience in rowing. This year's crew, it was felt, would not be remarkable either for its size or strength. If anything was to be accomplished, it must be done by superior skill and activity. This fact was appreciated by Captain Storrow and his crew...