Word: slide
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...both in the type of rowing and in the rigging of the Yale shells. Many considered it a step backward, for instance, when Mr. Nickalls reintroduced the thole-pin in the outriggers in place of the lock now in universal use in this country; his insistence on the flat slide has also been criticised...
Ethically, the proposition is all wrong. The man who is able to slide by in class, and knows that he is not doing the expected work, tends to form such a habit. This habit will grow and take in greater and more important things. Most men who do this thing know that it is wrong but their ethical standards are abstract, not a part of everyday life. They are to be dragged out and burnished occasionally but never used...
...Oxford squad, the outstanding oarsman is F. Lothrop, who rowed at No. 2 in last year's Harvard eight which defeated Yale. He is well-built and works extremely hard. His arm work at the finish is good and when he has learned to combine his body and slide more perfectly, he should be a valuable acquisition to Oxford. At present, he is inclined to row the stroke in two pieces...
...they are inefficient, and Harvard has its vines and roof-balcony; but the only effective work which these appurtenances can accomplish is to cause the imprisoned undergraduate to spend valuable lecture hours in wondering whether it would be better in case of fire, to trust to the firemen or slide down a rain pipe...
...pleasures and outside activities, in order to apply himself in some measure to his neglected text-books and tutoring schools. For inside of two weeks there must be injected into his world-weary brain all the knowledge which for the last three months he has allowed to slide joyfully from his thoughts. What is worse, failure to do this will result in the outlawry of probation, and all the shocks that undergraduates are heir...