Word: swelling
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...breath of heaven must swell the sail or else the toil is lost...
...turned and rowed to the line. Without any racing start the shell was carried up stream at the rate of 26 strokes to the minute. This gait was held till the crew reached the three-mile flag; there the stroke was raised to 30, and, after passing through the swell from a steamer, the "Chelsea," the crew gradually quickened their stroke. In the last half-mile they rowed at 36 and in the last few strokes at the rate of 38 to the minute. The time was 22 minutes, 35 3.5 seconds...
...applicants from private dormitories was about one-third of the total number, and that nearly one-third of the available rooms were assigned to these men. This count does not reckon in applications from men in College dormitories off the Yard, nor from men in private houses, etc., who swell the number of successful applications from men not now living in the Yard. There were 11 quadruple applications: of these six were successful. Rooms were let as follows: 21 in Stoughton: 16 in Holworthy: 13 in Weld: 2 in Thayer. In Weld, 7, and in Thayer, 2 were...
...questions and whether one wishes to endorse the course of the government or not, it seems to an old Harvard man, like myself, entirely out of place for a great University to interrupt its work in order either to give some of its students a good time or to swell a political triumph. It is most important for a University to foster patriotism; but it will do this best by insisting that patriotism is to be identified with the good citizenship for which it is aiming to train its students, rather than with demonstration of the torch-light order. There...
...self-oiling mechanism is to be apprehended. The special feature about her which pleases the rowing men is the small wake she leaves. This has been shown to be distinctly less than that of the "Frank Thomson," and consequently the crews do not suffer so much from the swell. The launch will be taken down to Lawley's today, where the name "John Harvard" will be painted on her stern...