Word: trials
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...race between the Trial Fours on Saturday was not a great success. The water was very rough, and although the race was rowed, it hardly served to show which was the better crew of the two. The boats crossed the line at the finish full of water, and with their bows almost even, Wetmore's crew leading the other by perhaps a foot. Several of the crews which went down to see the race came to grief on account of the roughness of the water. In making their landing at the Union Boat House, the Holyoke four swamped, much...
...same time, and drink in such perfect unison that, on setting them down, they say, "One, two, three," together. If any one drinks faster than the rest, or, in order to shout, sets his glass down before it is emptied, he pays for the company on the following trial. Next comes a song in which the chorus is intermingled with the striking of the glasses together. They generally keep up the bout till an early hour in the morning, going home in as happy a condition as one likes...
...LIFE in police courts and before grand juries seems to develop what might be called superb audacity. We lately heard of a prisoner, on trial for the murder of his parents, who made an eloquent and touching appeal for mercy to the jury on the ground that he was an orphan!" - Advance...
...question of late dinners is soon to come before the Commons, not as a permanent arrangement, but on trial for the month of January. It is thought there can be no reasonable objections to the mere trial of such a scheme, and on its results can be based an intelligent vote as to future meal-hours...
Another and perhaps the most important step towards the selection of the 'Varsity crew at Cambridge is the "Trial Eights." Substitute the word "Sixes," and it becomes applicable to Harvard as well as to Oxford and Cambridge. They - "the Trials" - are just getting under way here, and a short account of them may not be uninteresting or uninstructive to the captains of the Harvard clubs. They are rowed during the first week of December, although the 'Varsity race is not till April. The reason is, that men get "rowed out" and utterly "stale" if they are kept at it without...