Word: worded
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...word "ready," remove your scarf (every one is obliged to put one on during an "easy"), settle yourself in your seat, grasp the handle of the oar, thumbs under, about a hand's-breadth between the hands, the outside hand an inch from the end of the oar. At the word "forward," slide up to your stretcher, knees well apart, body down between them as much as possible, arms at their fullest extent, wrists depressed slightly so as to have the outside edge of the blade an inch above the water, and the inside edge resting on the surface...
...higher classes, to the fact that such conduct as would be expected from boys is not that which is hoped for from cultivated young men. We print below a Circular from the Dean, which exactly expresses our opinion on the subject of hazing; and we have a word to say in relation to the new Commons in Alumni Hall. Let howls and bread-fights become things of the past; and let allowance be made for the jars which must occur in the working of so new and vast an institution. Much expense has been incurred in fitting up a dining...
...thrown on our own responsibility. A direct appeal is made to our good sense, and we are urged to use our liberty wisely. Let our response be as hearty as the request. Let us remember that the opportunity now offers to prove ourselves men, not only in word, but in deed. The eyes of other and similar institutions are upon us, ready to criticise any flaw in our system, to depreciate the liberty accorded to young men. We know that the constant cry of the public is that Harvard gives her students too much liberty, thereby implying that we know...
SINGLE-SCULL RACE.The three contestants for the single-scull championship - E. L. Philips, of Cornell, Ansley Wilcox, of Yale, and A. L. Devens, of Harvard - were called into position promptly at the close of the Freshman race, and got the word "Go" as the sun was sending his parting beams over the blue waters of the lake...
...feature was a single-scull race, distance two miles, between Mr. P. Dana and Mr. F. S. Stone. When the word was given Stone was a little slow in catching the water, and Dana had a good half-length before he got fully under way. Nevertheless, he rowed pluckily with short quick strokes, but was unable to overtake Dana, who was pulling a long swinging stroke, and who came in the winner by 16 minutes, the time showing an easy race...