Word: shaking
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Songs and Sonnets" of Shake-speare...
Harvard passed the mile flag first in 4.59, Columbia being but two seconds behind. From this point Storrow let the stroke down to 33, while Columbia still stuck to 37 or 38. The boats were now approaching the dreaded eel-grass, and it was hoped that here Harvard would shake off her rivals, which she immediately proceeded to do. Columbia's work here seemed a little ragged. No. 7 was losing form and No. 3 was badly out of time. Harvard, however, seemed in excellent condition, their body-work being especially fine...
...customary manner. The Psi Upsilon and D. K. E. men enter the campus simultaneously from the north and south ends respectively, headed by calcium lights and singing their society songs. The members-elect of the Sophomore class are assembled in several rooms, and the juniors rush in and shake hands with them, at the same time taking abundantly of the cigars which are set forth for them. The Senior society elections on Thursday afternoon, and the Junior society initiations on Friday night completed the programme of the week...
...been materially lowered; in some cases as much as fifty per cent. The number of picked men in the English army who have been obliged to go into hospitals owing to respiratory diseases, is remarkable. When consumption once takes hold of a man, it is almost impossible to shake it off. Its best cure is prevention. Fresh air is therefore essential, and plenty of exercise to keep the blood pure and the flow rapid...
...much to gratify a widespread interest in college. Active legislators are prone to sneer at college theorists and their ideas. Why not invite a representative of this school of the world to attempt to correct these ideas. Two lectures from different stand points on this very silver question would shake the two schools together, and might increase the respect of one for the other...