Word: showing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...much stress upon the fact that in the lower part of the class, where abuses are most likely to occur, it is found to be consistent with a considerable gain in percentage in the Senior year, it may at any rate be fairly concluded that the facts do not show that the interests of the less diligent class of students are sacrificed. If our further experience should confirm these negative conclusions, we should only have to consider how we may best and most safely secure the more industrious part of our students the permanent enjoyment of the positive advantages...
This was too much for me. To be taken for a Freshman! I could not stand it. I tried to rise to show him gracefully but firmly to the door. He seized me by the coat-collar and shook me until I thought this spirit of 1677 would never...
...years ago I gave up this custom in disgust at the adherence of Harvard to the worst faults in rowing. And this is a mild term to use, for I can truly say that I have never seen an individual member of a Harvard crew show that the first principles of a correct stroke were known to him. Finally I expressed the hope that Harvard would be badly beaten in the annual race for a series of years, believing that nothing short of this. would bring her to her senses. Now it appears that she is persuaded that something...
...price which they could but ill afford. To avert such a disaster is for the interest of a very large number of students, and if they desire to protect themselves, their proper course is to join the Association at once. Investigations which are being made seem to show that the affairs of the Association have been very poorly managed, and it is certain that a new steward will be selected who will avoid the blunders of his predecessor. If a sufficient number of those who have been driven from the Hall by the mistakes of the past will give...
...publish to-day another letter from a graduate upon the subject of our rowing interests. This letter is, in a measure, a supplement to the one we published in our last number. The position of the writers of these letters, the strong ground they take, and the interest they show in our boating welfare demand, we think, some public recognition from those who are to select and train our crew, and who will shape our boating policy for the next summer. The captain of the crew does not, we believe, agree with the views expressed by our two correspondents...