Word: showing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...adapted to the sliding-seat. They row 35 or 36 strokes to the minute, and spurt up to 40; but it is improbable they will row faster than 38 strokes to the minute on the 30th of June. As a whole, they are a very promising crew, and show signs of good coaching and training. They leave for Springfield next Thursday...
...elective system, offering, as it does, choice of so many studies, has a tendency to develop specialists in one study, the evil effects of which in youthful education are freely admitted. Investigation will show that a large part of the students pursue almost exclusively literary studies, leaving science and natural history to be learned at haphazard. All will admit the value of these studies in developing sides of our character and tastes which History, Philosophy, Mathematics, or the general study of literature necessarily fails to do. Acknowledging the value of Chemistry, Botany, and Geology, many a man of a literary...
...series in Springfield on July I. For this trip they need money, and have decided, therefore, to call for a subscription to meet their expenses. They ask for five hundred dollars, and we trust that it will be speedily forthcoming. An examination of the treasurer's account will show that while the expenses have been larger than usual this year, the amount which has been asked for from subscription-lists is much smaller than in former years. It is evident that care and economy have been used in the management of the Nine, and if the five hundred dollars they...
...While at the time we were making up our minds that rowing too closely resembled work, our English cousins were struggling manfully at the oar. At Oxford, twenty-one colleges have boats on the river, and consequently a hundred and sixty-eight men, in addition to the University eight, show their willingness to sacrifice their ease enough to row for their colleges. The races just ended lasted a week, and Brazenose came out at the "head of the river," having bumped University on the first or second night. Of the twenty-one boats only six held their positions without change...
...from the wars of the gods and the giants. And then I imagine myself walking off, and saying, "So, so, Mr. Swiddle, you'll cut a dash in the streets of Athens no more; but off you'll go to the barbaric regions of the North, or perhaps to show your ideas of good form to the great king" - the monarchy of Persia, by the way, I shall compare to Yale; it was a place where loud-dressed and loud-talking people lived, who never accomplished much, and who wore jewels and charms of quaint, mysterious, and barbaric shapes...