Word: towards
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...University Crew, expressed the pleasure he had had as an old oarsman in seeing our crew row, and he considered it a very good one. Captain Bancroft, in an appropriate speech, presented Mr. Watson with a bronze vase, given him by the crew as an expression of their gratitude toward him. Mr. Roberts then rose, and proposed that a letter be sent to Oxford and to Cambridge by the Secretary, unofficially, asking if they would accept a challenge to row an eight-oared race about the first of August on the Putney-to-Mortlake course; he wished first, however...
...Lawn Tennis in the College proper, i. e. in the four classes of the academic course. A tournament will be held on the first four days of next week, from 3 to 6 P. M., provided ten men enter. The entrance-fee will be fifty cents, which will go toward partly paying for the prize. An entry-book will be opened at Bartlett's, which will close at 12 M., Monday. The contestants will be drawn in pairs, and the winners of the trials play on until one man remains unbeaten. The place of playing will be written...
...abuse it, and they are hardly complimented by the assertion that they will be "tempted to cut on any pretext." Their present high rank is a sufficient warranty of their future conduct, and we feel confident that they will not willingly permit the failure of the first step toward that freedom which is the highest incentive to manly work...
Turns him toward Bootes...
...feeling which is prevalent among the men who come here, and which does not wholly disappear until the Annuals. Again, there would be less of cramming on special points, and of disregard for everything not likely to be on the examination-papers. And, finally, it would do something toward raising the standard of the fitting schools, and thus towards making it possible for Harvard to become, in the fullest sense of the word, a university...