Word: timing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Resolved, That, as a mark of respect to the memory of one whom we shall ever hold dear, we wear the badge of mourning for the usual time...
...FRESHMAN sends us a remarkably witty little poem, ridiculing the Darwinian theory. It is represented as having been "dashed off" in an afternoon. Any professional copyist might have "dashed it off" in less time. It is comparatively easy to "dash off" other people's poetry. We hereby "dash off" this Freshman's name from our list of contributors...
...delay was partly due to the committee. The crews were to have come to the starting-post upon the firing of a cannon, but the committee, with a foresight quite characteristic of that body of Solons, had forgotten to procure a cannon. Much time was consequently wasted in waiting for the referee's steamer to go and notify the various crews that the time had come. Slowly the boats were seen to push out from their boat-houses and draw up to their positions. Then came more delay in arrangement, and after much backing and changing they were held...
...stroke, and all this with perfect regularity, for the brown backs moved together like clock-work. As they passed, a glance in a direct line over the stern of Harvard across the river clearly showed the backs of the other crews. Then Harvard stopped rowing, and in a short time after Yale did the same. The scene which followed was indescribable. No one tried to be cool or rational, but all preferred rushing about and yelling as if possessed. The judges on the press-boat, without waiting for the referee or the judges on shore, called Harvard up and presented...
...long time before the wildly excited crowd could think of supper, the ball, or the darkness and drizzling rain. The exciting finish must be talked over again, and once in a while the enthusiasm of some knot of magenta-wearers broke out into cheers and songs...