Word: rapidly
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unversity crew has been rowing at the harbor for the past few days, and their improvement has accordingly been much more rapid than before. The freshman crew is still at work in the tank at the gymnasium, as they have not as yet sufficiently mastered the rudiments of the stroke to enable them to row in a shell. The candidates are on the average lighter in weight than those of last year, and have not as yet shown very great promise...
...junior oratorical contest at commencement. In the fall of '95 he won first in the annual French medal debate, the prize for which is a large gold medal, the gift of the distinguished young Frenchman, Baron Pierre de Coubertin. He has a remarkable command of language and a very rapid delivery...
...freshman crew has a definite aim towards which to direct its efforts. The material for a good crew is this year unusually good, and gives promise of a close and exciting contest on the twenty-sixth of June. The freshmen have had good coaching so far, and are making rapid improvement by hard and earnest work. If the class gives their crew hearty and enthusiastic support from this time on there is no reason in the world why an excellent prospect should not make the final victory a certainty. We shall follow the work of the freshman crew with interest...
Near the close of the seventeenth century the turmoil which the rapid fluctuation in the relative value of gold and silver had created, had greatly subsided. Silver had by that time reached the place which it was to occupy for a long time to come. The ratio had been changed from 11 to 1 to about...
...that Mr. Copeland will give three new voluntary courses in reading and speaking. The value of the courses given by Mr. Copeland cannot well be over-estimated. An excellent reader himself, he has the faculty of knowing how to instruct others, and under his tuition very poor readers make rapid improvement. His curse in debating which was started last year has met with success and has proved a good training school for men who wish to enter one of the debating clubs. It is also of considerable value to men who are already members of these clubs, since...