Word: slowed
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1890-1899
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...walking squad is thus far doing necessarily slow work under the charge of J. D. Phillips '97. C. J. Liebmann '98 is the only other old man who is back, as it is doubtful if C. D. Drew '97, who was on the team two years ago, will walk this year on account of poor health. A large number of new men are with the squad, but it is as yet too early to tell much about them...
...clear then that the flower exercises are an old and unbroken tradition, and that they have existed in their present form for upwards of thirty years. To substitute artificial ceremonies for the living custom-the scramble for the flowers, is hardly a reasonable proposition. A tradition is the slow product of time and tendencies, and is only susceptible of very gradual change or modification. Once rudely disturbed from without and its very essence is gone. Briefly, you can not take away the flowers and the scrimmage on Class Day without destroying the tradition. You may still have exercises there...
...working every day in the Mott Haven squad for the different events. Yesterday for the first time trial heats of 40 yards were run by a portion of the sprinters, but on account of the short time the men have been in training they were rather slow, five seconds being about the average time made...
...tree exercises, before only partially realized, is strongly emphasized. No changes, however, should be made in these most characteristic exercises of the unique day in a Harvard undergraduate's course, except those that are absolutely necessary for the safety and comfort of the participants and spectators. Seniors will be slow to agree to any changes which are not in this way necessary...
...have centralized leadership to compete with the centralized power of the King. It was a work of reform rather than of creation. In America we have had no struggle against ruler or class. Our problem has been chiefly the up building of a nation, a task which demands slow and sure steps...