Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...value to astronomers of the observations made on Wednesday last. Towards the end of the year the senior class are invited to visit the observatory and inspect it, and they are then given a look at the moon. With this valuable amount of astronomical knowledge is the Harvard student thrown upon the world. Many high school scholars know more of astronomy than an average Harvard graduate. The university would do well to give its students a little more of the good which might be obtained from its department known as the Astronomical Observatory...
...lessened; the cries on the bank grow louder and more excited, as the partisans of each urge them on to greater efforts. The pursuers pull themselves together in obedience to their coach's warning voice, as their boat showed a tendency to roll when it meets the wash thrown from the oars of the leading crew. Another twenty yards, and the word is given. The bow of the pursuing craft overlaps the stern of the pursued; a moment more, and with a fresh impetus of a final spurt, "cox" ventures to edge over to the side of the vanquished...
...features of the game are the same today as they were centuries ago. The players were not allowed to touch the ball with their hands; the body-checking was about the same, a little more vigorous perhaps; when a goal was made the ball was sent back to be thrown up in the centre of the field. On the other hand, the number of players was much larger then than now, sometimes as many as three hundred; the distance between the goals was usually 500 or 600 yards. In those early days the exercise was thought to be a "severe...
...education introduced at Harvard, although we confidently look to see many privileges accorded to the students of the annex in the near future, which have hitherto been withheld. There are numerous courses conducted by means of lectures in some of the larger recitation rooms which might, with propriety, be thrown open to them, and they could also be encouraged to use the library more by having books reserved for them in their different courses. We mention these only as examples of reform which may be looked for. But, as for co-education to any further extent than this...
Phillips of the freshman eleven was badly thrown during the game with Exeter...