Word: stilling
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...lift it to the higher and freer plane of activity on which alone true scholarship can be found. But in spite of all that had been accomplished at that time, and of all that was due to the well won reputation of individual professors,- to whom the faculty still look back with veneration and pride,- it is the period of the present administration that will be remembered hereafter as the epoch in which the University was first fairly able to take its place among the great seats of learning of the world, and to adopt as its foremost purpose...
...price of the tickets is astonishingly small and it bring the trip quite within the means of hundreds of men. The effect of the cheering last Saturday on the work of the team was marked; stronger cheering still will act with telling force tomorrow...
...spite of accidents to its members, the freshman crew has continued to improve since the class races. The stroke is still pretty ragged, the finish being poor, and the oars uneven at the catch. The men have not been taught to use their legs...
Changes are still being made in the make-up of the 'varsity crew. Saturday Kales, stroke of the '96 crew, was put in at stroke, while Fennessy was moved back to No. 6. Captain Davis went from No. 6 to No. 4 and Townsend to No. 2. The placing of Kales at stroke has put some much needed life and snap into the stroke. Waters, who rowed at No. 7 until recently, has gone out of training...
...forgotten. The entire corps of teachers is enlisted from the ranks of the students here, and, without this corps, the work could not continue. As each year ends, and many of the students necessarily end their work at the Union, there is a call to students who still remain in the University to take the vacant places and to create new places that the expansion of the work may in no way be checked...