Word: harsh
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...letter from "A Sufferer," which will be found in our correspondence column this week, again calls attention to the fact that property is not safe when left at Memorial Hall during the hours of meals. Some of the epithets used may seem to some a little too harsh, but it seems to us that this is no matter to mince words about. Where property which has the owner's name conspicuously marked on it is continually being stolen, as has been the case this year, there is good reason for indignation. We wish that there were any other reasonable supposition...
...HARSH comment was made on the Princeton-Harvard game last Saturday by the man who said that the Harvard team seemed to think there were not enough spectators on the benches, so they stopped playing to watch the game...
...other way. History tells us that Cyrus, when a young man, was awakened every morning by sweet strains of music, in order that he might begin the day in harmony with everything. Perhaps the Faculty think that it answers the purpose equally well to wake us up with a harsh bell, and give us the music half an hour afterwards; but the delay is fatal. By the time the music comes we are not in a fitting frame of mind to appreciate...
...fate confined with harsh decree...
...brace one's self just before coming to the full reach; but no hang or pause should occur. The shoot of the arms should be smoother, lighter, and easier, and more uniform in the motion. Neither the stroke, nor the feather, nor the recover should have any jerking, harsh motion or hanging about them in any part. Let each man in the crew grab firmly all he can hold (and no more) and row well home without jerking. More ease and uniformity in all parts of the stroke and a better control of the various movements are necessary before...