Word: backwards
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...previous year in the history of Harvard boating has there been so much interest centered in the class races. Every day a large number of students go down to the boat-house to watch the different crews at their work on the river. Eight men in a boat, moving backward and forward with machine-like regularity, all with caps corresponding to the colors of their oars, present a fine sight. Each of the three upper class crews entertain great hopes of victory, and take every opportunity to improve its chines of success. These three crews are so evenly matched that...
...about 90,000 men, and General Butler was in the southern part of Virginia with a smaller force. The supreme command of the federal forces and movements was in the hands of Gen. Grant. The plan devised was for Grant, with the army of the Potomac to push Lee backward and hold his attention while Butler should slip in and capture Richmond. There were several defects which the lecturer enumerated clearly. During the winter of 1863-64 Lee had remained encamped opposite the army of the Potomac near the Rapidan River...
...members of the class have been very backward in sending in their order lists, and but very few have yet been received. If anyone wishes to have his photographic order filled before commencement it is absolutely necessary that his list should be sent in before the spring recess, and to make perfectly sure of getting the photographers lists should be sent in within a week. The few men who have not yet accepted their negatives are urged to do so at once, as by not doing so they delay not only their own orders, but also those...
...Demosthenes they will both be united against Macedon. We all stand together against that senseless cry which speaks of the great ancient languages as dead in any offensive sense of that word. On this great question of classical languages depend upon it we shall take no step backward...
...various departments of the university might see to it that all news relating to their work and courses should reach us. Moreover, in a college supporting so many different societies, there ought to be a large amount of society news, but the secretaries are extremely backward in sending us reports of meetings or any items of general interest...