Word: stillings
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...rowing in two divisions, under Mr. Colson. A faster stroke is being developed and the men are getting to row more easily together and to keep in the centre of the boat. The crews are using a long, even stroke, but hang badly at the full reach. There is still so much ice in the river that the crews cannot get on the water for at least another week. The ice is very thick, and has torn up the marine railway, so that a new one will have to be built for the launch...
...Fire." It is unnecessary to describe the result of a cigarette or lighted match dropped among the confetti or light gowns of the women. The fire in the wooden, stands at the Princeton game last spring shows the possibility of such an occurence. This and the Iroquois fire are still so fresh in the minds of many people that it would keep them from attending the Statue exercises, and thereby detract from the success of our Class Day. A number of members of the Corporation and the Faculty and some older graduates have expressed the opinion that on account...
...year's second team. The intercollegiate cricket last year resulted in a tie, each of the three members of the association. Harvard. University of Pennsylvania, and Haverford, having won a game and lost one. Haverford won the cup the previous year and according to the rules of the association, still holds it. Cornell has been admitted into the association thus giving each college an additional match...
...class crew practice. The Freshman club class crew squad numbers thirty men and the class crew squad, thirty-three men. With the exception of the latter, which is working only on the machines, all the squads are practicing both on the machines and in the tank. The work is still ragged, the men rowing poorly together, with a particularly weak finish...
During the monarchy there had been only two Parisian prisons, but the new regime turned almost every sort of establishment into prisons, and they were all crowded to the doors. The most famous of the prisons was the Conciergerie, the antechamber of death, which still stands, though it has been greatly altered internally. This, and the Temple, the former headquarters of the Knights Templar, are the most interesting of the many places of confinement used by the Terrorists. The Temple was the prison of Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, Madame Elisabeth, Madame Royal, and the Dauphine, and it was thence that...