Word: sit
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...every class to have their pictures taken, and to this end a photographic committee is selected whose duties, even when ably seconded by the class, are no light burden. Now we ask you, members of '85, is it right or fair to the committee which you have elected, to sit quietly in your rooms and calmly read their notices and then proceed to calmly ignore them? Your pictures must be taken or an old established custom will be given up. The sooner you make your appointments, the better for all concerned, especially for yourself. The sittings must be finished...
...certain course that they learned absolutely nothing in it, and that it was time thrown away to attend the recitations. While there is much exaggeration in their statement, there is nevertheless much truth as well. Perhaps nothing is so tedious to a young mind as to sit hour after hour in a section there the method of teaching is wearisome and false, not to mention the (often unjust) dislike to the voice and presence of the instructor. No matter how interesting the subject, no matter how much the student may think it will benefit him, unless the head...
...oars in feathering, dipping, in a word, of watermanship, are very serious and only surmountable by longer experience, but the great aim of a crew eight months before its expected race should be to acquire the fundamental qualities absolutely necessary to effective rowing. These essential qualities are, ability to sit up straight, which can only be acquired by constant care and exercise, also the power to keep the shoulders back firmly when the body is forward on the full reach. If an oarsman negligently allows himself to overreach, his hold upon the water when first dipping his oar will prove...
...Notman wishes me to inform the seniors that he will be ready for sittings in Moses King's old store in about two weeks. As he wishes as many men as possible to sit for their class pictures before Christmas he would advise all that can to make arrangements to sit now at his Boston studio, 99 Boylstyn street...
Members who have passed in lists for club tables containing the members of the tables at which these extra men are to sit, can change these numbers, if they so desire, for tables seating only twelve...