Word: thrown
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...utterly impossible to do satisfactory work on rowing weights that are so far gone that they cannot be made to offer the slightest resistance, and which, therefore, men cannot possibly handle as they would an oar. These winter months are too valuable to be thrown away; the crews that use them to the best advantage always show it in the class races, but it is perfectly evident that work on such machines as those which are at present in the rowing room, will not enable any team to do itself justice...
...those that are most general. Intercollegiate athletics are a good thing, but must be regarded as a means to an end. There is a great need of reform in training. There is no reason, for example, why a diet on which men have flourished all their lives should be thrown away, and a disagreeable one substituted...
During the lecture many pictures from photographs of the tombstones in Athens were thrown by the stereopticon on a screen in front of the audience...
...once to state the reasons for which the meeting had been called, using as a text a letter from Mr. Francis M. Weld '60. The scope of the letter was that Harvard should take some stand against professionalism, and after the letter had been read the subject was thrown open for discussion. Honore '88, moved that Harvard offer to Yale to form a dual league in football. The motion upon being seconded, was fully discussed by speakers from the floor, and Mr. Hooper '80, read two letters, one from Mr. Robert Bacon, of Boston, the other from Mr. Wetmore...
When the debate was thrown open to the house several men spoke upon the question. The votes on the question were as follows: On merits of question, affirmative, 37; negative, 44. On merits of principal disputants, affirmative, 26; negative, 66. On debate as a whole, affirmative, 0; negative...