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...scarcely credible to believe that any such outrageous system of training as was practiced by all professionals fifteen years ago, should ever have been adopted by Harvard men. Rowing men of the present will shudder at the requirements of a captain of a crew in former years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Training at Harvard 15 years Ago. | 1/29/1885 | See Source »

...year the College press here has alternately thundered and complained, and the only appreciable result has been that this year, at this early date, the number of "mockers" has grown to be legion. What it will become later at its present rate of increase, is a prospect we shudder to contemplate. Everything except extermination has been recommended hitherto, and we are now emboldened, as a last resort, to offer this remedy as of value for our troubles with the "mucker...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/16/1884 | See Source »

Might not she shudder at the blank abyss

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SILVER CHALICE. | 12/20/1881 | See Source »

...awful, fiendful tale. I shudder to repeat it, yet I will...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE LAMPREY AND THE IBEX. | 11/25/1881 | See Source »

...with outstretched arms along the pier, over those surging waves where a single misstep was death. For a moment I was paralyzed, incapable. Then I leapt forward - down the stairs - out into the night! If I could but reach her before . . . I could only complete the thought with a shudder...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MIRA. | 10/28/1881 | See Source »

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