Word: pulling
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Hitherto, Latin and Greek have been included among the voluntary subjects of the final examination by which it was possible to obtain extra marks and thereby compensate for deficiencies in other respects. Many a man in the good old times has gone up, relying mainly on his classics to pull him through, and has been eventually pulled through in this way, though, perhaps, in rather a battered state. Classics, however, are now abolished entirely, and this cannot fail to have an important influence on the system of education pursued at the public schools, and must eventually exercise a diminishing effect...
Hansen is giving points to some of the new candidates for the senior crew, to enable them to pull well with the rest of the men. Sutton continues in his good work as coach...
...hand. Coming, as it does, in the winter, it will conflict with none of our other sports. Indeed, it might be made a valuable auxiliary to them as a form of winter training. Many a man does not go to the gymnasium, because he finds it dull work to pull at the chest weights, and many another, who does go, would gladly participate in some out door sport which would give him enough exercise to keep him warm and be sufficiently exciting to give him an interest. Hockey is just what such a man wants...
...numerous victories on the Thames. The crew is a powerful one and ought to inspire confidence in its well wishers; but as the latest reports from New London show, no mean adversaries will be found in the Columbia freshman crew. This afternoon the freshmen take their last pull in Cambridge, and it will consequently be the last opportunity their classmates who cannot go to New London, will have of seeing them row. Let us hope that the members of eighty seven will extend to their crew a no less cordial farewell than was lately given the university crew...
...Columbia freshmen are lighter than our men from '87 by about ten pounds on the average, and one or two of their men are light for even a two mile pull. They lack the regularity of their university eight, but will have a week longer in which to prepare themselves The Yale crew are expected at their quarters on Wednesday, in time to see the Columbia-Harvard race, which they expect to follow in their own launch. In this way they will be able to form some idea of the style of rowing which their rivals pursue. Capt. "Bob Cook...