Word: went
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...earlier than they did last year. The men that pulled were: Crocker, Brigham, Littaner, Jacobs, Stow, Schwartz, Smith, stroke Bancroft, and coxswain Allen; and, considering that it is the first time for three months that they have had oars in their hands, they pulled remarkably well. The boat first went down the river, then turned and passed the boat-house, and was greeted by a "three times three" from the crowd which had come down to see them. A very pleasant little attention to the men who had been working so diligently all winter...
Cambridge-Oxford. The race between these colleges will take place on April 13. The Oxford crew went into strict training on January 24, and the crew, as at present made up, is as follows: Bow, H. D. Daunt, B. N. C.; 2, S. F. Bayley, Christ; 3, W. H. Greenfell, Balliol; 4, G. F. Burgess, Keble; 5, J. W. Booth, Pembroke; 6, R. H. Pelham, Magdalen; 7, H. B. Southwell, Pembroke; Stroke, W. A. Ellison, University...
...felt relieved. Smith went off, and I went at my forensic. I was just putting the final flourish to the thing, some hours later, when he came in with his editorials...
...once have such ideas," the Senior went on, just glancing at me, "but then, you know, Mrs. - , one outgrows such fancies by the end of his first or second year." Hereupon I collapsed, and remained silently listening to the following dialogue which sprang up, when the Senior continued...
...Perhaps you are right, after all," said he; "I agree with what you say, in theory at least, though I doubt if it will hold in practice. But then I may be taking my own circumstances and ideas on the subject as belonging to us all. I went to Harvard with the intention of doing fairly well, of getting what knowledge and experience I could conveniently in three or four years, and of finishing off my school education in a leisurely, gentlemanly way. I confess that my aim was not a high one, and therefore there is perhaps little wonder...