Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...order of the ninety-five crew remains unchanged with the exception of No. 4, where Irving rowed yesterday. Greene is still unable to row on account of his leg. The order: Stroke, Davis; 7, Cameron; 6, Potter; 5, Manning; 4, Irving; 3, Pillsbury; 2, Capen; bow, Stevenson...
...legislation substituted two hundred families for the former one hundred. At this time over 200 towns in the state were supporting grammar schools, but this new regulation reduced this number to less than 100. In this year district schools first put in an appearance, and helped to lessen still further the interest taken by the small towns. The district schools absorbed all the educational energy of the commonwealth. Academies supported chiefly by the state, and large private schools sprang up and flourished in the last part of the eighteenth century, and have continued with little change almost down...
...warm summer nights have increased still further the popularity of the Yale pastime of sitting on the fence. Men of all tastes and interests, society men and non-society men, "grinds" and their opposites, meet here every evening on the common plane of a Yale democracy. Never before has the fence experienced the intense veneration which has marked its present renaissance, and never before has class academic spirit been at such high water mark...
...attendance, though not large, was still enough to give the home team a very good backing, though the game was too one-sided to keep up the cheering after the first few innings. The CRIMSON'S bulletin of the Princeton game announced the score at the end of each inning and was watched with interest until the fifth when Princeton's six runs spoiled Harvard's chances of winning the game...
...strength, though their delivery had noticeable faults. They were very much in earnest. The Harvard men spoke in better form, were calmer and more argumentative. Yale's argument showed a very great study of facts, although the bearing of the latter on the question was not always clearly shown. Still the argument was plausible. The Harvard speakers cited authorities more carefully, but their facts did not impress their hearers as strongly...