Word: stern
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...patient work of Mr. Crocker, as well as the assistance of Mr. Bancroft, the class owe much. Especially to the coach, who took the arduous position when the interest of the class itself was wanting, are they indebted for sending to meet Cornell a crew that pulled a stern race most pluckily, and in a form that only could be acquired by constant practice and the best of training...
...wanted to, I might have kept secret a good many things I learned in England. They tried down at Cambridge to build an eight at Blakie's shop, but Blakie was not equal to the job, and his boat cracked from stem to stern while the crew was in practice. I might have kept the secret in New Haven if I wished, as Keart could have built us, and can build, a good cedar eight. But what is the use of being selfish? What I have done has improved boating, and I am glad...
...absurd to think that no one could have ordered a shell of Waters, to be built after an English model, except Robert J. Cook. As for Blakie's shell, it did not split from stem to stern, but two years after it was built it was loaned to the Freshmen, who kicked a hole in the bottom of it. As for Keart, "the Yale factotum," about whom we heard so much before the race, he built a shell for the Yale crew, and it was so worthless that they never could use it, and it is now falling to pieces...
...That stern phylactery best becomes thee...
...four months' preparation at the Williston Seminary, Easthampton. He "hated" the classics, and his knowledge of them was very meagre. Indeed, it seemed at one time as if his shortcomings in this study would hinder him from entering. Means were taken to secure his admission that in these stern days would hardly be thought efficacious: "I have seen the President," writes a lady, "and said all I could for Chauncey, and I have no doubt he will get in." The lady's influence, however, was not strong enough to get him in without conditions...