Word: stern
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Stern "boys" went up and won the fight...
...else, - a crew wearing the magenta and spurting with a power that made the boat quiver and jump at every stroke, and all this with perfect regularity, for the brown backs moved together like clock-work. As they passed, a glance in a direct line over the stern of Harvard across the river clearly showed the backs of the other crews. Then Harvard stopped rowing, and in a short time after Yale did the same. The scene which followed was indescribable. No one tried to be cool or rational, but all preferred rushing about and yelling as if possessed...
...exchanges it treats very cavalierly, but for the most part its criticism is fair. The "Department of the Alumnae" we hesitate either to praise or blame. What reason, however, can there be that the author of the plea for an election system should give the following advice? "Elect stern simplicity in dress..... Elect muscle for physical dependence. Dare to mount a wall unassisted; and, further-more, choose a five-mile walk, with a study of nature's coloring by the way, in place of working dogs and dahlias in worsted. Elect a course of reading for a series of formal...
...imagination can picture to itself no pleasanter fancies than those connected with the early and best days of art, the first and grandest development of civilization. Before the days of stern practicality, when men had time to admire the beautiful, and each race, as it emerged from barbarism, turned instinctively to the representation of beauty as the natural expression of its more refined feelings, there existed what may well be called the "golden ages" of art. Thus we look back to the age of Pericles, at Athens, the Augustine age, at Rome, the Renaissance, in Italy, and the palmy days...