Word: strength
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...upon as the favorite for first place in the six-oared race. Of the four crews this one alone has retained the stroke who pulled in the fall race, and in no other boat are there so few new men. The stroke is good, and the men get their strength well on the beginning, though at the end there is a tendency to settle. The bow is apt to roll, but with this exception the crew row in excellent form. Weld should perhaps be mentioned next to Holworthy, although there is no doubt that Matthews will press her hard...
...enough to find our crew settled upon and hard at work, and where the strokeship lies between three or four men, it is not supremely difficult to make a choice. We are sorry to miss Mr. Taylor on the crew. As an oar, he is undoubtedly faulty, but his strength and endurance will be a bad loss, and we hope his absence may be only temporary. In his stead, Mr. Ely has been rowing, pulling No. 5, while Mr. Wetmore takes the position of No. 3. A speedy announcement of the fixed positions of the men will be welcome...
...loves, and also to see how true the woman's nature must have been to enable her to cherish such feelings. We do not know which most to admire, her mournful, pathetic resignation when she is separated from him whom she worships with the whole strength of a noble soul, or her joy, ringing out in clear, true tones when all obstacles are removed, or when she thinks of the eternity to come in which the two souls so perfectly fitted for each other will be united...
...success beyond the hopes of its projectors cannot be doubted, in view of the interest, amounting even to enthusiasm, manifested by the members who attend the drills. at the gymnasium, and by the large number of names appended to the roll of the battalion, a list daily gaining in strength and influence...
...other respects, the fare now is almost precisely the same as under the old regime. Certainly one of the worst, and to the writer an utterly inexplicable feature of that system has come down intact, namely, the furnishing to those students whose distance from home prevents their recuperating their strength with better fare on Saturdays and Sundays, the most abominable dinners on those days that could well be set on a table. A passage from Dryden is very descriptive of a Sunday dinner at Memorial...