Word: written
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...explain his views in case he disagreed with our correspondents. Enough is not known concerning the intentions of those who have charge of our rowing interests, and our remarks were made with the intention of furnishing an opportunity for a reply to the criticisms of the graduates who have written to us on the subject. We have every confidence, as we have often said, in the present captain of the crew, and if the exact state of affairs at the boat-house was thoroughly understood we believe that those who criticise now would then commend...
...five decades the mat was passed from one occupant of the room to the succeeding one, until the written record began to read like a chapter in the Old Testament, "And So-and-so bequeaths it unto What's-his-name,' and "What's-his-name bequeaths it unto Thing-a-my," and so they go on bequeathing, until the legacy comes to an end with me. At first this transmittendum had a price. In '32 a Divinity student, who had purchased the mat for a dollar and a half, parted with it, "at a great sacrifice, and because...
...year to year in bone and muscle, but these are differences over which we have but little or no control. The energies of Harvard's leading boating-men should, then, be directed to the manner of rowing, or to what the English call "form." Much has been said and written about the famous "Harvard stroke." I do not hesitate to brand such trash with the name of buncombe, and I earnestly beg Harvard's aquatic chiefs not to be beguiled by like nonsense. There is but one good way to row; all others are bad. Why did Oxford beat Harvard...
...Edmund H. Bennett, dean of the law school of Boston University, has offered a prize of $50, to be known as, the "Hillard prize," for the best essay written by any member of the school during the school year...
...tour around the world. The book is naturally valuable only to those who have never travelled; for the author kept steadily in the beaten track of tourists, and describes more his own impressions of what he saw, than the places and objects themselves. It makes, however, an interesting volume, written generally in a lively and entertaining style. The fault in the style seems to us the constant use of the present tense, which in short narratives adds life, but continued in a book of over three hundred pages produces the effect of sweetness "long drawn...