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Word: sit (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...body movements follow each other continuously; number five uses his shoulder; number six bends his arms too soon; number seven uses his shoulders, and bends arms too soon; number eight lunges forward at the finish of the recover; number nine changes his grip, and does not sit up high enough ; stroke hangs slightly at the reach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crews II. | 1/19/1885 | See Source »

...picture-taking exhibited by the members of every class, but if we may judge from reports the class of '85 seems determined to outdo its predecessors in some respects at least, and has taken this method of doing it. As, by the contract with the photographer, all the sittings must be finished before the first of March, very little time is left for the completion of this work. Moreover, this time, short as it is, will be interrupted by the midyear examinations, when we can scarcely blame anyone for not wishing to sit for his photograph. The period before...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/10/1885 | See Source »

...special objection to signing his name, indeed many are only too glad to get an opportunity. Further, the men in the favored courses may congratulate themselves on no longer having to sit on certain square feet of settee to insure their being "spotted." The new system is in every way so desirable that we wonder that it is not introduced even into courses where the sections are much smaller than those in History...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/18/1884 | See Source »

...committee which now begins to sit like a high court of chancery, and issue injunctions against every department of athletics, now asserts on the argument of the Advisory Committee of the graduates, that Mr. Bancroft cannot be had as coach for the crew...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Graduate's Opinion. | 12/9/1884 | See Source »

...very time that at least, some energy should be shown by their half hearted management. The question at issue is one of life or death to the interests of the Harvard Foot Ball Association, and yet such a crisis, the gentlemen in whom this trust has been placed, calmly sit in their rooms and quietly let things take their course, or in other words, they let other men fight their battles for them. At the conference last Monday night, a time at which every effort should have been made for the retention of foot ball, not a single director...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 12/6/1884 | See Source »

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