Word: working
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Faculty at one time, while President Hayes was keeping them waiting, seriously considered the question of not granting him his degree on the ground of "negligence in required work...
...half past five, the press boat, as many a knight of the quill has already piteously told his readers, was half a mile up the river. Columbia started at 39 and Harvard at 35 strokes a minute, the former straining for the lead, and the latter doing steady, strong work. At first Columbia obtained a slight advantage and led by three yards at the railroad bridge; but when the lower bridge was reached, Harvard's slow and steady work had brought her a foot or two ahead, and now this lead was steadily increased. Columbia struggled desperately, and hung...
...lead. They spurted again and again; but the oft-mentioned "beef" in the Harvard boat was still fresh and ready. The boys pulled hard and viciously, not a man distressed, and the stroke still at 33. The water was terribly rough, and made this hard rowing cruel work for the men; and the spray flew from the oars of both crews. Still those broad backs pound d steadily and viciously away, and now the half-length of clear water opened and opened to a full length, and at that distance apart, and with Yale stroke...
...take the race into his own hands at the start and keep it there until the finish. The effect that our victory ought to, and will, have is an increased interest in boating at Harvard, and the success of this year will be but a stronger incentive to work for a like success next year, when we may be sure that Yale will do all she can to reverse the result...
...known, while three of her members have climbed to dizzy heights in Mathematics which have been rarely, if ever, trodden by undergraduate feet. We venture to predict that it is a class that will most emphatically be "heard of again." We wish them all god-speed in every good work...