Word: pushing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...attention. Now that athletics seem virtually over for this season, and every one is settling down to work upon his annuals, we are too apt to become forgetful of the men who are to represent the crimson at New London. To visit the boat-house and see the crew push off is truly not very edifying, but every attention shown them is a slight incentive to greater effort. We have not the means of going as far in the demonstration of our support as we could wish, but that is no argument against showing such interest...
...Several seats in the boat are by no means satisfactorily filled. There is excellent material in the class that ought to be gotten to work immediately to try for these seats. We have always noticed that a well-organized and victorious crew owes its success invariably to the energy, push, alertness, self-sacrifice and denial of its captain. Let the captain of our crew display more of these traits and we will prophesy renewed enthusiasm among its members, a hearty support by the class, and finally and paramount in importance, a successful and victorious race on the Harlem, July...
...show this quality in sitting down, a lady should push her dress back with her right hand, and glide gently but firmly down an imaginary inclined plane to the right. The aesthetics come in in so timing the operation that the hand may be slipped out just before it is too late...
...will deny that there is intemperance in college. But there is no more than elsewhere, rather less. In any college town, there is less intemperance among the students than among the townsmen in proportion to numbers. In the words of an esteemed contemporary: "Just think of this a moment; push it to the ultimate, and I think you will have no difficulty in seeing it." "It is a curious fact," however, that men don't seem to see it. Let a student make a jolly night of it, and on his way home levy a loan on a signboard...
...sort of attempt, then or afterwards, to make better sense, or any sense, better rhyme or any rhyme; without altering the arrangement, though it may appear to be wrong, and without the slightest addition on the part of the collector. The collector must also be careful not to push leading questions so far - in case what is delivered is unintelligible or fragmentary - as to vitiate the spontaneous operation of memory, I mean, make the reciter fancy that something is remembered which has really been suggested. He ought to note any explanations offered by reciters, and to record those bits...