Word: sitting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Doesn't get a good seat. Hangs at full reach and overreaches. Must keep shoulders down and back. Doesn't straighten arms. Must keep head up and wrists straight. Must sit higher...
...Fails to sit up. Slumps badly. Too stiff and jerky. Overreaches. Doesn't keep stomach out. Must keep shoulders down and head well up. Must get even pressure on stretcher...
Sicut patribus sit Deus nobis, - which in lingua vernacula significes "May Fortune and the Faculty favor the sons as they have their fathers." Yesterday we published the first of a series of articles recalling the victories and defeats and hard-won fights of the various notable athletic teams which have represented Fair Harvard on flood and field in bygone days. The compiler of these historical potpourris has many a curious legend to tell, - of how that famous crew of 185 - , or was it 186, - when hard pressed by her mighty opponents on Lake Winnipiseogee, and almost swamped by the mighty...
...cold slabs of colorless meat, while the poor waiters languish below on the parboiled trimmings! And think, too of the Caucasion slaves of the autocrat of the breakfast table having symposiums at ten or thereabouts! This is monstrous! How can we, who are deprived of the innocently frothing beer, sit quietly in our seats, while the steward's satellites are revelling in a symposium beneath our very feet? We have in vain tried to get the directors to change our own fare for the better; some inseparable obstacle has always stood in the way; so, it is perhaps too much...
Prof. Goodwin, whose bright face brought out a loud welcome, after thanking the gentlemen for their kind reception, said he could not sit still and hear these statements. The gentleman entered on a humerous speech, and, after creating repeated laughter, went on to say that 30 years ago five teachers were sufficient to teach Latin and Greek. Now the whole is elective, and ten men work harder than those five did. They gave only 28 hours a week in new instruction, and then, perhaps, half of them were not actually devoted to new instruction, and now 87 hours were given...