Word: toward
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...race was scheduled to be started at 4 o'clock, but it was not until 4.30 that the crews were sent down the river. The Juniors were on the Beacon street side of the course with the Seniors, Sophomore and Freshmen extending out toward the Cambridge shore in the order named. All four crews caught the water together and kept even for some distance. The Senior crew then drew ahead and the Freshmen dropped back a length, leaving the Juniors and Sophomores together. They kept this relative position until below the Harvard bridge, when the Freshmen began to lose more...
...from me, however, to insinuate even indirectly that the rights and privileges of the gentlemen who officiate there are not indeed supreme and absolute. But I should wish to offer a single suggestion: that if their bearing toward the noisome student who infests their domain should ever by any cataclysmic regeneration of their nature approach a reasonable condescension as its limit, the approach should be very gradual, so that we might be able, by great effort, to adjust ourselves to such a revolutionary change in the life of the Harvard student as this regeneration would cause...
...change was made in the order of the second crew with an eye toward selecting the eight that is to go to the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia on May 25. Macdonald was moved from 3 in the second eight to number 3 in the four-oar; Swaim went from 5 to 3 in the second; and Hanfstaengl, who has been rowing in the four-oar went into Swaim's seat at 5. Fahnestock went into the four-oar as stroke in place of Hyde. The second crew was balanced better in the new order, but did not row well...
There are still a large number of Seniors who have as yet made no subscriptions to the Class Fund. Every man in the class should feel it his duty to give his proper share toward thus maintaining and increasing the future life and usefulness of the class. In order to have a vigorous class life in future years, it is absolutely essential to have a large fund...
...educated men and, in certain districts, the future growths are rockoned for 150 years in the future. The lack of foresight displayed in this country offers great opportunities for technically trained men who are willing to sacrifice physical comforts to the hardy life of a forester, and it is toward this end that our schools of forestry are doing national good...