Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Stern...
Earned runs - '90, 3. Two-base hits - McLeod, 2; Quinn. First base on balls by - Sabine, 4; Cox, 10. Struck out by - Sabine, 7; Cox, s. Passed balls - Slade, 8; Stern, 6. Wild pitches - Sabine 1; Cox, 6. Left on bases - '90, 4; E. H. S., 3; Umpire - Manley, '87. Time...
...That rowing was now done with the head and body, while we fellows, who had followed Harvard's stern in for seven successive years, had done it all with our backs and arms. 'And you didn't even use your legs much, either,' he added, with a smile. He told me that he didn't favor giants for the boat, though he thought that had Bacon's great crew of giants in '65 known how to row the new stroke their performance would have been marvellous. A sixteenth-of-an inch wire, he said, was stronger than an inch...
...Sheff. '89 concealed about his person. Just toward the middle of the first act a boat crossed the stage as a part of the play. Two persons are in this boat, and when it came in full view of the audience, there was the obnoxious flag mounted in the stern of the boat. Then pandemonium broke loose with a vengeance...
...very true one. The more students in our American colleges attach themselves to courses of study which will lead them in practical work in after life, the better for them. Courses in French, English Literature and Fine Arts make good conversationalists; but they help one but little in the stern realities of a legal or business career. Men ought to think previously how they are drifting, before they make their election of courses; for they frequently lose all track of their previous education, their previous convictions, and their previous manner of thinking, by dabbling in the pleasant but deceptive waters...