Word: smoothed
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...picture complete; at the other end stood the freshmen, in weighty council of war; now they come on with a rush and a shout. Out through the door the mass is squeezed, like a bed-sheet through a clothes-wringer, and down the campus they slide on the smooth crust of snow. The fight soon divided itself into two sections-the freshmen with the bowl man in their midst, striving to gain the gate on Thirty-fourth street, and thus put their man in safety, while the sophs were trying to tug the bowl after them and establish the desired...
...running in the streets if they wished, that all the men should run on one street, and leave the others for the Cambridge people who certainly have a fair right to them. North avenue is the best street in Cambridge for running on, having as it does broad, smooth side-walks as far as any one is likely to run. And since this street has been tacitly conceded for the use of students, let all who wish to run out of doors run on it and leave the other for the undisturbed use of Cambridge people...
...turn to the right on Elm street (we believe) to Main street one-eighth of a mile. Turn right on Main street and follow it to Watertown, whence follow the horse car tracks on Mt. Auburn street to Mt. Auburn. The finish is at an asphalt crossing (which is smooth and may be spurted over without danger) about seventy-five yards before reaching the bridge across the railroad tracks. The horse cars go directly from the starting place to the finish, so that any one wishing to see start and finish can do so very conveniently...
...beautifully chosen language the thoughts of one who has evidently devoted much serious thought to his subject. The utter impossibility of the absolute realism to which modern writers tend ever becoming a true work of literature is forcibly and convincingly stated. The style of the essay is throughout smooth, the language is glowing and full of life-a worthy medium for such good thoughts...
...Thursday, June 30th. The course for the two-mile races at New London is the last half of the four-mile course-that is to say, the stretch between the Navy Yard and the finish flag opposite Winthrop's Point. The weather was beautiful and the water was comparatively smooth. The Columbia men were rather smaller than the Harvard Freshmen, and it was generally supposed that the latter would win easily...