Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...topics for the final examination should be delivered to the Instructor or to the Assistant on or before Saturday, June 13; after that date no lists will be received. It is requested that the lists be written on a postal card or on paper of the size and shape of a postal card. Each list should be signed with the name of the student who offers...
After the race on Saturday the probabilities are that the men will be taken at once to New london, where, under the guidance of Jasper Goodwin, they will be got into proper shape for the race. The work then will be hard, the four-mile course having to be covered at least twice a day, besides the running, walking and indoor work. There will be no system of diet, the men being given as much as they want of plain, substantial food. The stroke rowed by the Columbias is long and steady, with a sharp, wuick recovery, which will send...
Thanks to the personal efforts of Mr. Dathrop, who was on the ground two days in advance, the track, usually in a poor condition at this season of the year. was put into fair shape for running, and the athletes were not bothered quite as much by that as formerly. But although the track was in a better condition than last year, the general management of the games was very lax, some of the officials being so incompetent or prejudiced that Harvard suffered the loss of at least two events...
...from objective to subjective ideas, from the general to the personal. Vocal music is the objective, and came first; then came instrumental giving freer play to the unrestricted imagination of the writer. The older music was peculiarly formal; the musician had to precede the poet in working out the shape and form of which more beautiful ideas should be presented. Bach was the first to direct these architectural forms of their stiffness, then came Haydn and Mozart, his logical successors...
...stationary seats, and slowly learning how to pull the oar blades through the water. The crew can hardly be expected to take better than fourth place in the class races. There is, however, good material in the two eights for a crew, which ought to be in good shape by the time of the race with the Columbia freshman crew...