Word: stiffs
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...successful presentation. There is, perhaps, no room in the Harvard buildings which is so well fitted to heighten the effect of the exhibit. The great taste which has been displayed in the finish of the room will here serve a double purpose. While the exhibit might appear stiff and unartistic without some accessaries as a relief, Professor White's room in its classic statuary and richly colored walls, will prove a most fitting means of a thoroughly artistic display. It is intended that this exhibit shall be thrown open to the public next Wednesday, and we need hardly prophesy, from...
...take the rope back. Easton, however, sat it out calmly, and could not be moved. At the end of four minutes, the word was give, Harvard heaved, Easton came down, and the Lafayette anchor rose to an angle of 45 degrees. Had the rope been less stiff and more manageable, he would have been pulled off the cleats; but before another heave was taken by Easton, Lafayette had let out over a foot of rope and their anchor settled back on his cleat. Time was called with the ribbon 18 inches on our side of the centre...
...paper bag, in which the slips are to be filed, and arrange these bags in alphabetical order on the shelves of one of the alcoves in the library. Perhaps on many topics under which fewer slips are likely to accumulate, a more convenient receptacle would be the large stiff rectangular envelope, in which lawyers are used to file documents...
...spectators present swelled the number of those on the range to 35, or more. The scores, on an average, showed a decided improvement over the former work of the club, especially in the double-bird match, though the figures in this match were kept down somewhat by a stiff breeze from the southwest. Owing to the large number of entries in the regular matches, it was found necessary to omit the customary "scrub-team" match. The summary of the afternoon's work is as below...
...same excellence as that indicated by the same per cent. in any other course. If this were realized in fact, then students at Harvard would be likely to select those courses which would give them the most benefit. But it is not realized; every course has its reputation as "stiff" or as "soft," and every instructor has his reputation as a strict or easy marker. The student may have to decide between two courses with full knowledge that to gain the mark he aims at (be it 50, 70, or 90 per. cent.) will acquire two or three times...