Word: shrinking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...flannel (stripped) blaizers, tennis flannel and English serge pants, long and short, and a large assortment of tennis and gymnasium shoes. French fancy flannel shirts, different styles of cheviot shirts, etc I make a specialty of white twill tennis flannel and white English serge which is warranted not to shrink. I have great facility for manufacturing the above goods and I guarantee to give perfect satisfaction and to make cheaper and better than any other store in the city. J. F. Noera, 436 Harvard street, Cambridge...
...have no doubt, by the gentleman whom the faculty has chosen to fill the vacancy. Mr. Hayes is an elocutionist of well-known merit, but above all, his capacity as a teacher will make his work here eminently successful. As for the study of elocution, no one need shrink from undertaking it because too much labor would be required of him. Preparation, of course, is necessary if any success is to be gained, but one can always proportion his work so that he can profit something, no matter how little that may be. That oft-given reason, too much work...
...college is justified in expecting each freshman class to come forward and contribute its share towards making a success of the gymnasium meeting, and this eighty-eight has not done. It must be that the old-time spirit of bashfulness still exists among our freshmen,-that they shrink from making any athletic efforts in public. Or, perhaps, many are deterred from competing at the games through consciousness of their inability to carry away the prizes. The senselessness of both these courses of reluctance to compete has been too often pointed out, to need further comment...
...that the paper one is much lighter, stiffer, and of greater strength. Its lines are firmer and owing to the fact that the paper skin is varnished over its waterproofing, it presents a perfectly smooth surface to the water, unbroken by seam or joint. Nor does it warp or shrink in the sun as much as the wooden one. The paper canoe is also more durable, will last longer and stand harder knocks, because a shock which will only bend or at most cut a hole in it, will completely shatter a wooden...
During the coming season, then, an earnest and decided move should be made toward the permanent and effective establishment of class nines. Our ball players ought not to shrink from the task because it requires a certain amount of time and trouble. If the rowing men in the classes are willing to undergo two months of monotonous gymnasium training, work on the river in all sorts of weather, and make other equally great sacrifices for the sake of their class and the prospects of the university crew, surely it is not asking too much of our base-ball players...