Word: anchored
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...least once during his college course each student ought to go to Province town by boat in order to get the effect of land fading from sight and gradually appearing again. Then, too, the harbor presents a lively scene, with vessels and steamships riding at anchor and various yachts and small crafts moving about...
...wisdom is not the having learned any particular thing, but the result of many knowledge mutually acting upon and modifying each other. Michael Angelo chose for his emblem the figure of an old man in a child's go-cart with the motto, anchor impair,- I am still learning. Titian, dying of the plague at ninety-nine, exclaimed sadly, "My God, must I die now, just as I had learned to paint an eye!" Indeed the word learning, which we use to express a result, does by its very form imply an unfinished and unfinishable process. What the judgment requires...
...Yale launch was seriously damaged by fire recently while at anchor in the Qunnipiac river. A watchman discovered the fire and succeeded in extinguishing the flames with the aid of a fireman...
...There are at least a dozen men in college who have had experience in pulling either on the class or 'varsity teams, but of these only one has been induced to come out this year. Capt. Moen has left the matter entirely in charge of Robb '93, who anchored on the freshman last year. The training consists at present of five or six pulls of two minutes each against a wagon spring, light work on the chest-weights and a short run. It is not by any means certain that Harvard will be represented in this event at the Mott...
...coach. Mellen has had experience in rowing at Oxford and is fully capable of occupying the position of Columbia's coach. Captain Miller has also got the tug-of-war team at work, and is hopeful of a repetition of the victories of the last two years. As Miller, anchor, and Douglas, No. 1, will both pull this year, there are only two positions to be filled...