Word: rather
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...done. This is a mistake. It is the mid-winter training that brings out the winners in the spring contests, and if the Mott Haven cup is to reappear here it will come about by the labors of January and February continued through March and April rather than by the late attempts of the latter months alone...
...worth knowing, as an evidence of the actually significant human passion of the day, What I especially lament, then, in the journalism of the day is the too frequent absence of this ideal. Too often the newspaper appeals to the weaklings and to the sick among its readers rather than to the whole men and to the strong. As for the cure, that must come from the ability and manliness of leading journalists themselves. Given the true man, who is also a born editor, and never has lacked, and never will lack subscribers, nor yet influence...
...every reader of yesterday's CRIMSON must have suffered as he read the communication from Wellesley which we reprinted from University. Nevertheless it is gratifying to us all, and especially to the Pierian Sodality, to learn that the omissions of that memorable evening were not commissions, that it was rather ill-management than ill will that led to the discomforts of the affair. The subtle and delicate sympathy for the members of the Pierian which evidently inspired the men to make the aspersions on the management of the Tennis Association, cannot fail to have a softening influence on the cold...
...three weeks. There are at present some sixty candidates. This number will gradually diminish as the men are sifted out, and in the course of two or three weeks some definite decision can be reached as to the relative merits of the crews. At present they are in a rather crude state and have not even learned the whole stroke. Most of the crews are made up largely of new men, as the old members are either at present with the 'Varsity or have not as yet gone into training. The sophomore crew has the largest number...
...that the university crew is no longer molested by the class crews, but has a rowing room exclusively for its own use. Up to Monday the candidates were still rowing straight arm, the object at present being to get a good firm position and a proper use of body rather than to acquire any technicalities of the stroke. The name, weight, and a brief criticism of each man is here given...