Word: resorted
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...floats at the boat-house are not yet in place, the crews already on the river will have to resort to the old process of launching, known commonly as "wading...
...races have been planned. It is on this ground that the New York Clipper, the most professional of all sporting papers, sustains their action. It says that "In the event of no acceptor appearing, sporting law and custom, meaning the code practised by professional oarsmen, will uphold them." To resort to professional methods for obtaining a title seems very objectionable; to resort to the same means to make a race, which could be obtained, if at all, by the usual methods known to collegians, seems the worst possible taste. While every effort is being made at present to illuminate...
...when such an improvement has been made. But when, inevitably, one morning in each week, the only meats provided are those ever welcome delicacies, liver and bacon and sausage, some who do not relish such dishes must either breakfast on bread and butter and sweet potatoes, or resort to the convenient, but for some expensive, order slip. If the writer did not know that others besides himself were incommoded by this rather unhappy combination, he would have let the matter pass without comment. Cannot the directors or others in authority see that a change is made...
What has been said applies with more or less aptness to the neutrals who, of course, have not their special places of resort, nor, in many cases, the abundance of resource which, here at least, belongs so peculiarly to the fraternity man. The desire for social enjoyment is also met in many cases by the combining of fellows of like tastes and pursuits in little groups, musical clubs, German clubs, Shakespeare clubs and numerous other like organizations suggested by the social impulse of the student mind...
...member of the crew or a coach. There is great anxiety lest some one interested in the Harvard crew may see and report to them something about Yale's peculiar boat and the new style of rigging. Matters have come to such a pass nowadays that the crew resort to all sorts of tricks to deceive those who are watching them. They will pull a very slow or a very quick stroke, as fancy pleases them; or they will row a long distance in good form, and then suddenly appear to be "all broken up." They find it almost impossible...