Word: sheer
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Last lecture there was a little blue-book circulating in the History 13 section, containing a petition for a list of general readings. The writer of this article put his name down on account of sheer laziness, he admits, but he saw other names that were irreproachable - names of men concerning whom "'88" would hesitate a long while before advancing his accusation of "laziness...
...should be. When we consider that the four years of college life will determine our religious convictions in great part, we think that the subject should be presented to us in the best manner possible, and not in such a way as to drive us to scepticism from sheer indifference. If we are fed on the dry husks of religious conventionalism, we can hardly be expected to develop practical and robust Christianity to help us in our daily life, and not a general shaking up of dead issues." - Herald...
...Changes in the boats used, changes in the men's training, and changes in the distance rowed. The Oneida, which was the name of the Harvard boat used in '52, is described as being "thirty-seven feet long, lap-streak built, heavy, quite low in the water, with no sheer, and with a straight stern. The width was about three feet and a half in the widest part, and tapered gradually towards bow and stern. The boat had plain, flat wooden thole-pins fitted into the gunwale. Her oars were of white ash, and ranged from thirteen feet six inches...
...another column we publish a communication from a member of the class, which should be read by every man of eighty-nine, and which we trust will bear good fruit. The freshmen should be ashamed that such a complaint should be necessary to stir up those who, either from sheer laziness or from meanness, refuse to do everything in their power to bring victory to the nine. At least the freshmen should feel bound to make as good a showing at New Haven as the Yale men did here. The fare has been reduced to a sum that is within...
...Holmes Field. If this game is won by our nine, Yale and Harvard will be tied for the first place in the college league, with a total of five games won and one lost. Although we think that the Harvard nine will win this afternoon, and that nothing but sheer carelessness will prevent it, still the proverbial uncertainty of base-ball makes every game doubtful. It is of the utmost importance that every one of the remaining games should be won, if the base-ball championship is to come to Harvard this year. It would be inexcusable, if the nine...