Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Goodwin, who was then coaching the crew at New London, and Captain Cowles at once saw Messrs. Watson and Bancroft, the Harvard coaches, and told them that, if necessary, the race for the next day must be declared...
...three to look into the matter and to take such action in any direction as they might deem fit. The members of this committee were all very strongly of the opinion that athletics are essential to the highest welfare of the students; but, at the same time, they saw tendencies growing in the manner of conducting athletics which, unless checked, would be likely to more than offset all the advantages which are to be gained from athletics. They felt that the tendency of athletics, during the past few years, had been to efface that clearly defined line which separates amateur...
...urgent and apparently reasonable request about the disposition of tickets, a member of the class has seen fit to place on sale at a store in Cambridge sundry Memorial and yard tickets, to be sold to any one who cared to buy them. The committee, rather than allow this, saw fit to purchase them at a price far above their value; and they would now beg every member of the class who is contemplating any like action, to consider whether he ought to place the interests of his own pocket before the interests of his class. If a senior...
...from year to year, increasing as the years roll on. A stranger at Harvard yesterday would never have known that the day was a holiday, that the nation was remembering its dead. Recitations, lectures, examinations went on as usual. This indeed could be pardoned, but when the students saw that grand Memorial Hall as free of decoration as on any other day of the year they concluded that corporations were indeed soulless. Not a flower was before a single-one of the many names engraved on the marble tablets which line the transept; not a flag floated in the breeze...
...ought to be. According to the ground rules, any ball striking a building outside the grounds is only allowed to count for two bases. A hard-hit ball to right field will strike the hill and then roll down into the first baseman's hands. Every one who saw our last game with Brown last year, recollects how indignant he felt when a hit ordinarily worth about two bases rolled under the fence into a pit on the other side and allowed the striker to gain home. The News aptly remarks, "it may be well enough to use such small...