Word: reaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...University. And especially the professional schools, should congratulate themselves that Tuesday's vote resulted in the defeat of Col. James Scripps for legislature. For years he has been a bitter opponent of every improvement needed by the University and his candidacy was nothing more than an attempt to reach a position from which he could strike more letting blows at a grand old school. Every friend of liberal education will rejoice at the defeat of such an ignorant and blatant demagogue. -[Michigan Argonaut...
Episode of the Yale-Wesleyan freshman game: "A Yale man had a badlooking eye, but later on, when unlawfully tackled, focussed his unimpaired member on a Wesleyan man sufficiently accurately to reach him twice straight from the shoulder."-[Spirit of the Times...
...race should be to acquire the fundamental qualities absolutely necessary to effective rowing. These essential qualities are, ability to sit up straight, which can only be acquired by constant care and exercise, also the power to keep the shoulders back firmly when the body is forward on the full reach. If an oarsman negligently allows himself to overreach, his hold upon the water when first dipping his oar will prove to be jerky, consequently destroying that uniform steady sweep which should characterize a Harvard crew. A firm, upright body is then the first thing our men should...
...having a special car attached to a freight train the team were enabled to reach St. Albans Thursday night. Monday morning they started for Hanover where they arrived at 1.30, having just time to dine, dress and reach the field by half-past...
...smallest class, yet undoubtedly they are the most interesting. Their games and contests are watched with breathless interest by the entire college, and their success over any powerful rival is received with the wildest enthusiasm. The second class includes those who- men perhaps unsuccessful in their efforts to reach their destination of belonging to class 1, or others less ambitions, -engage in the different sports for the love of the games themselves and perhaps from a desire to give the regular teams as much real practice as possible. These men really deserve a great deal of the credit for college...