Word: secretly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...secret of success was entirely due to the concentration of the combined power of the men on each stroke, the men throughout the race rowing back and forth mechanically and deliberately as one body. There was no undue haste, as had been the case in previous races. The six men were as though molded into one, operating like the works of a well-regulated clock, in perfect unison and harmony. The result was a conservation of force, previously unknown in a boat. The test was a fair one in every respect. With a crew physically inferior to that...
...debate of yesterday evening was but slimly attended owing doubtless to the rainy weather. After the minutes of the last meeting had been read and a secret ballot taken on the merits of the question for discussion, "Resolved, that the United States should cooperate with other nations in the ferreting out and punishing of violent plotters against the established government," the debate was opened by Mr. Eaton, of the Law School, for the affirmative. Mr. Eaton believed the law of nations should forbid the protection of plotters, dwelling especially upon the difference between political refugees and plotters. The latter...
Year by year the colleges devoted to the education of girls are approaching more closely in all respects to the colleges designed for the other sex. In some colleges the girls are learning to row, and it is even rumored that the secret cigarette is smoked by presumably fair lips, and that foot-ball-played with a ball loosely stuffed with feathers-has lately been introduced into a female college situated not very far from this city. The most remarkable instance of the progress made in girls' colleges toward a complete equality with other colleges was furnished the other...
This week's New York Critic contains a long article on secret societies in college, and devotes most of the essay to Yale...
...matters before the public, but before the faculty, and he would see that they were heard. If there were facts let them be investigated. No man had any authority to do as the students claim a certain professor had done. The president spoke of his action in regard to secret societies, and said it was better for Princeton to legislate on her own matters in this case, as she had done in that. "Let us settle our questions," he said, "among ourselves...