Word: secret
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Yale with regard to the crew. Of the new boat it is said : "There has been a dreadful mystery hanging over this boat. No one except members of the crew has been allowed to see it and all information in regard to it has been kept profoundly secret. Under-classmen have refrained from talking about it lest they might become disliked. A portion of the boat-house has been divided off from the rest by a partition and a very small door with a very large lock has been an eye-sore to inquisitive visitors at the boat-house. During...
...date the boat work had to be given up and the gymnasium appliances brought into play. The rowing machines formed the main portion of the indoor work, to which was added a series of general exercises laid down by the captain, the details of which he considers a 'trade secret.' At the machines the amount of exercise varied as to length of time, sometimes being continued as long as twenty-seven minutes, but always at a stroke of forty per minute, with occasional faster bursts. Daily runs were taken and always out of doors, no matter what condition the elements...
...English government will use all its force against the secret societies of Ireland...
...girls themselves, we sent to the office in the tower of Memorial, (where it has been placed owing to the little use to which it is now put,) but the sympathetic lady who presided over the higher regions refused to betray what she was pleased to call a "sacred secret," and consequently all we will say as to "age," is, "you can imagine...
...daily triumphs over twelve brow-beaten individuals who submit to cold roast beef and hot vegetables or cold vegetables and hot roast beef, according to the best judgment of the servant above-mentioned. He had a sleek, self-satisfied air, and well he might, for he knew the secret goings-on in an establishment which had been the despair of the president and corporation of Harvard College and six hundred students to boot. He probably knew why the directors remained together four hours in one day and then handed in a report to their constituents covering half a page...