Word: reaches
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...club will take a run to Newburyport, starting from University at 9 o'clock Saturday morning. It is expected to reach Newburyport in the afternoon, returning the next day. A detachment in charge of Mr. Norton, '85, will accompany the club as far as Salem (20 miles) and return in time for the athletic meeting Saturday afternoon. A second detachment will return from Lynn (13 miles). The pace will be slow and all are requested to take part...
...value of a college education, let a spirit of indolence or overweening interest in other matters draw them from their duties. The third class commonly known as 'digs,' are those who possess a stern sense of duty, or in whose minds the seeds of wisdom have sprung up and reach out their tiny leaflets on every side sucking in like the maelstrom, everything which comes within its reach...
...said that the new stroke adopted by the Yale College oarsmen differs from the old one in these particulars: The reach forward is much longer, and the body is not swung so far back of the perpendicular. The slides are shorter, and on the recover the body is drawn up slower, which, it is held, does not stop the momentum of the boat as much as the quicker slide. The hands are thrown away from the body very rapidly. The oars are pulled through the water about as quickly as last year, however. Although the motions within the boat...
President Eliot of Harvard, narrowly escaped being tardy at the opening of the college term on Thursday. He started from his summer residence, at Mount Desert, on Monday night, intending to reach Boston by steamer. A fog closed in upon the steamer, however, and she was compelled to anchor until Tuesday noon. Finally the steamer put back in order to enable those passengers who were in a hurry to reach home to take the train and come by land.-[Gazette...
...vessel of her size. She was carrying considerable ballast. The sea was running high and the wind was freshening; she began to ship water and fill her cockpit, and before one sea could be bailed out she shipped another. The boys realizing their danger probably attempted to reach shore. At this point she shipped more water than she could carry and she settled to the bottom of the ocean, stern foremost, carrying her small boat down with her. This was S.40 a. m. Sunday, August 12th. Hasty preparation had been made for such an emergency and some of the life...