Word: eye
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...other extreme and fail to learn till their course is completed, how greatly they stand in need of just such courses as the old curriculum required and which would in no way have been irksome or unprofitable to them. If we could keep before our mind's eye some definite set of subjects which ought to afford a broad, liberal education, such perhaps as a well-devised curriculum would show, and subtract from and add to it certain courses, according to our personal requirements, we should be more certain of attaining our end here than we are by the manner...
...sorry that the CRIMSON should have made the mistake of saying that the Yale crew was leading the race when it sunk; and the absence of your boating correspondent from Cambridge leads me to believe that the article was not written by an eye-witness, for I was on the nearest boat to the crews when the accident occurred, and the Yale crew was then behind both Columbia and Harvard. It is of course a pity that the race could not have been rowed to a finish; but it is unfair to '89 to deny that...
...camera seen nothing and records nothing which the human eye, placed it in the same position, would not see; and no man, standing where the instrument stood, could have known who won. A man five yards in front or behind the finish-line frequently thinks the race won by a runner who was a full yard behind. A man 20 or 25 yards away knows nothing at all about a close finish, and the camera knows no more than the man. The writer of this article sat five yards behind the finish line, and thought Sherrill...
...season. The crew tried it on Thursday for the first time, and Captain Cowles expressed himself as well pleased with the boat, which is in every respect satisfactory. The crew is now rowing with the snap and vigor which characterized the victorious eight of '84, and under the watchful eye of Bob Cook the men are rapidly overcoming the defects which seriously marred their work earlier in the season. They will row a little in the new boat every day in order to become thoroughly accustomed to it. They will not pull over the four-mile course...
...mistake in his special duty of placing third man, but as nearly as he could see, Rogers won by 7 or 8 inches. Mr. Schuyler, somewhat of a novice in such service, became interested in the race, and watched the men come down the straight instead of keeping his eye on the tape. On this account he was not positive, but thought Rogers won by a few inches. Mr. Ford, who knew his business, and attended to it faithfully, did not look at the race, but at the tape. He did not know any of the runners, and when...