Word: steering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...been done in regard to picking out the men for the University Race; new men are constantly trying. In spite of all the changes in the boats, the rowing is said to be very good at both universities. Mr. Beaumont, last year's coxswain for Oxford, will steer them again this year...
...same coxswain will steer this year as last, unless something unforeseen occurs, in which case several very good men who have lately appeared on the river are ready to take his place...
...laff. Iron, which authority allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted into the unnecessarily painful irrun. The South, notwithstanding its fondness for calling party pawty, manages by some inscrutable means to satisfy its orthoepical conscience in mutilating palm, calm, psalm into pam, cam, psam, and beer, tear, steer into bare, tare, and stare. The provincial and antiquated gotten is paraded forth in all its whilom beauty and usefulness by the simple and guileless Westerner, while the meek and humble it is made to pay a much heavier part than it was ever intended...
...Alma Mater, and as yet have hardly had time to stop and think. Now here my sermon begins. Don't float along with the tide, like Tom, Dick, and Harry, never thinking where it is bearing you. First look about you, and determine what is the safest course to steer. No doubt you think my advice hardly flattering, inasmuch as it implies that you are unacquainted with so much as the A B C of the man-of-the-world's alphabet; but when you have discovered how thoughtless even men with a very fair share of brains...
...Bacon and Taylor may be able to put as much strength into their stroke on one side as on the other, but we beg to suggest that experiments with the crew are exceedingly dangerous at this late day. One thing more. If the bow oar is to steer at Saratoga, it seems time that he should begin to learn this very important part of his duty...