Word: palm
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...anxious about the reputation of our poets. The Yale Courant quotes a few lines from the Oberlin Review, and then says: "Yet even this gem will have to yield the palm to 'A Comparison,' by A. D. F., in the Amherst Student." If A. D. F. can write a few more such morceaux the Harvard poets will have to look after their laurels. This morceau we give in full...
...increasing general interest in out-of-door sports will not prove an advantage to the University can hardly be believed. We hope most earnestly that its effect will be felt this summer, and that our Nine, and the crews we send to Saratoga will bring back with them the palm of victory; but whether this much-wished-for result is attained this year or not, we feel confident that this interest insures our future success...
...repeat. Nine tenths of the work should be done in the first part of the stroke; the oar should be well covered throughout, with no "snatching" at the end. Many men row with the arms from not having them in the right position. To secure this, extend the hand, palm upward, and turn over the wrist only, leaving the fore-arm nearly horizontal. Coaches should insist on having the men swing their elbows close to their sides, and well past them; as this encourages a proper position of the arm. If a man does not "get the hands away" immediately...
...Advertiser, we are strongly inclined to doubt the truth of this statement too. For the man, as we happen to know, who has lately taken upon himself the charge of reporting private matters of the college in a daily paper is also the one who attempted to palm off upon the Magenta, as his own production, a poem which appeared first in Punch and afterwards in certain papers in this country. Reference to this Freshman, who is so apt at "dashing off other people's productions," will be found in the second number of the Magenta. We are perhaps...