Word: result
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...have learned from sad experience that a crew which rows to win must not only have undergone a rigid and severe course of discipline, but must have also acquired a uniformity of style, which is itself the result of long and constant training. Regularity and precision of stroke are essential conditions of success. Many methods have been adopted to secure these advantages, but none of them have proved particularly precise or accurate. Recently, however, a device has been resorted to among professional oarsmen which bids fair to accomplish the desired end. Photographs of crews in motion have been taken...
...shine, every day since the term began. The University of Pennsylvania has secured the services of a paid coach for the foot-ball season, and expects to give the other teams in the league a hard pull, even if she does not win one or two games,-a result not unexpected by many of the Pennsylvania men. Of Wesleyan, all that can be said is that she has always had a strong team in the past, as Harvard men cannot help remembering, and expects to equal her past teams this year, and to prove a match for the University...
...committee of conference shall have the powers of a committee of the faculty. By this, it is meant that, whenever the committee sees fit, it can, as the result of a conference, adopt, by a majority vote of the student members, a resolution which the faculty members shall report, - like the report of a committee, - as soon as possible to the faculty; and the faculty members shall, as soon as possible, report back to the student members the action of the faculty in regard to the report, and the grounds of this action...
...advance of Yale. The three-mile flag was reached in 18m. 47s., with Yale now exactly 60 seconds in the rear. The race had now degenerated into a procession, and the anxiety attendant upon the first few hundred yards gave way to a most satisfactory confidence in the ultimate result...
...result of this hard hitting was to send Gunderson to right field and Murphy into the pitchers box. There the latter did not fare much better than his predecessor. Two runs were made in the 7th and two more in the eighth. In the ninth Brown made its only hit off Winslow, a high fly just over the fence at left field. Before Foster could get over the fence and field it back, the batsman, Gunderson, had made the circuit of the bases. The score at the end was thus 15 to 2 in favor of Harvard. The work...