Word: sit
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Stroke fail on the catch, and the finish is slovenly throughout the boat. There is a tendency to overreach and not to sit up straight. Nos. 2 and 3 are especially faulty in this respect, both rowing with rounded backs...
...there is no limit to the usefulness of the new invention. There would be no more weary hours spent in the ill-ventilated recitation-rooms, which your papers are continually harping upon; nor would the deplorable condition of the walks cause any inconvenience to the students. The instructor could sit in his cosey library and ask his questions, and the student could answer while rolling another cigarette. As for those students who would be likely to read their answers out of their books (although I think there are none of that kind in Harvard), their case could be attended...
...fails to let his body down between his thighs, when on the full reach. Smith and W. Le Moyne have each a tendency to dip, and to bury their oars too deep in the first part of the stroke. F. Le Moyne goes too far back, and does not sit up well at the finish. Through the boat, and particularly in the forward part, the finish is poor, rather worse than the beginning; there is a tendency to sliver, to row the last part of the stroke with the blade only partly covered, and to turn the oar before...
...connection between politics and chimney-pots, or between personal allusions to the character of prominent politicians and good taste in architecture. When I go voluntarily into a political meeting, knowing that I am to hear a speaker who holds views opposed to my own, I am bound to sit still and listen courteously to whatever he may have to say, and it is my own fault if I hear anything I don't like, But when I go to a lecture on Fine Arts, I feel myself in no way bound to listen to personal and entirely irrelevant remarks...
THERE have been made lately frequent and just complaints as to the ventilation of some recitation-rooms. In one case some thirty men have been compelled to sit for an hour in a small room with closed doors and windows. After a short time every breath of fresh air has been consumed, and the result of sitting in an over-heated room and of breathing a foul atmosphere for so long a time has been productive of many headaches and of much discomfort. There seem to be some who are unable to appreciate the sanitary advantages of fresh...