Word: parts
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...session at Columbia has now closed, and nothing remains for the students to do but go to New London to cheer up the crew. Fortunately the apathy which at one time seemed about to kill all our boating and athletic prospects, by hard work on the part of a certain few, was driven...
Eighty-four's Triumph was a grand success. The procession was weird, the talking part of the programme good, and the drinking part entirely satisfactory. The poem was delivered by Mr. J. F. Jenkins, Jr., and the oration by Mr. J. H. Ward, Jr. The convivium afterwards was held in the American Institute Fair building, where hat kicking, crack walking and busy times generally were rife until the "wee sma' hours...
Moses King makes a specialty of supplying residents in any part of the world with new and second-hand books, particularly those in fine bindings, and those of great value by reason of age or rarity. Any book written by a Harvard graduate, or used in Harvard University, can generally be obtained here, if obtainable anywhere...
...crew pulled in their victorious races of '77, '78 and '79. The feature of the Harvard stroke is still the hard catch at the beginning. The stroke consists of a firm catch, using the back and shoving with the legs, while the arms are not used in the first part, being kept straight until the hands are above the knees. Then the arms are bent and the oar-handle drawn well in to the chest, when the hands are quickly shot out over the knees, and the body follows in the long slow recovery. The swing is of fair length...
...after he has done with Cicero and Homer before he is fit for either employment. Neither Greek nor Latin nor the higher mathematics have brought him a single idea concerning prudent investments, the capabilities of money in the world's different markets, nor yet the best or most effective part to play in a drawing-room. It is, however, but a small minority of the graduates of '82 who will be called to the responsibilities and powers of a life of moneyed ease; the great mass of American youth in our colleges are given their education as their capital...