Search Details

Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...than ever that the members of the crew need encouragement and support. This year they are going to meet Yale as well as Columbia on the water, and will accordingly have to work all the harder for victory. We don't ask the whole freshman class to go and sit for three hours on the platform in front of the boat-house; but we do think that a visit of only a few minutes from a few of their classmates will go far to show the crew that the class has not entirely forgotten their existence, simply because there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/15/1886 | See Source »

After the game the victorious freshmen, adorned from head to foot with crimson and white, hired a barge and drove around the city blowing horns and singing an adaptation of "Yale Men Say." They accepted an invitation from the sophomores to come and sit on the fence which the freshmen had forfeited, and many of them brought away chips of it as mementoes. In the evening there was a dinner at the Athenaeum, which was not very enjoyable, owing to the disturbances on the field being too fresh in memory. Most of the nine staid over Sunday in New Haven...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: NO MISTAKE THIS TIME! | 6/14/1886 | See Source »

...CRIMSON has received queries as to how a Harvard man can undertake to bring young ladies to a championship game and sit demurely on the reserved seats, without daring to open his mouth to send forth a cheer for his own college nine...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 6/1/1886 | See Source »

...Doesn't sit up to it throughout the whole stroke. Rushes his slide and slumps at the beginning and the end of the stroke. Must be careful to keep his eyes in the boat. Apt to clip his stroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The '89 Crew. | 5/27/1886 | See Source »

...Doesn't seem to realize how important it is to keep his mind on his work. Apt to swing down into the boat on the recover. Clips badly at the beginning of the stroke. Must sit up to it better...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The '89 Crew. | 5/27/1886 | See Source »

Previous | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | Next