Word: broading
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...boat was still fresh and ready. The boys pulled hard and viciously, not a man distressed, and the stroke still at 33. The water was terribly rough, and made this hard rowing cruel work for the men; and the spray flew from the oars of both crews. Still those broad backs pound d steadily and viciously away, and now the half-length of clear water opened and opened to a full length, and at that distance apart, and with Yale stroke up to 39, the two crews crossed the line, Harvard the winner by two lengths. The splendid fellows...
...examinations of the partial character announced should be made the object of intercollegiate contest it is hard to see. They call forth work, but not of the right kind. To examine a man on a play of AEschylus and orations of Demosthenes and AEschines cannot make him a broad Greek scholar, but will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary for a well-educated man to be familiar with Herbert Spencer; but it is destructive...
...programme will be as follows, unless circumstances demand a change; 1. 100 yards, trial-heats. 2. Throwing the hammer. 3. One-mile run. 4. 100 yards, second trial-heats. 5. Seven-mile walk (during which will take place running high jump, putting the shot, and running broad jump in the order named). 6. 100 yards, final heat. 7. 440 yards, trial-heats. 8. One-mile walk. 9. 220 yards, trial-heats. 10. Tug of war, trial heats. 11. 120 yards hurdle-race, trial heats. 12. 440 yards, final heat. 13. Three-mile walk (during which will take place pole leaping...
...most flagrant sinners against the canons of good taste in pronunciation in college, I have distinguished three well-defined classes: the Western, the Southern, and the New England. The first two, while doing justice, as a general rule, to the vowel o, manifest a decided aversion to the broad a (as in father), with an inclination to make the r painfully distinct. Untrammelled by dictionaries, both pronounce such words as aunt, haunt, daunt, cant, etc., ant, hant, dant, cant, while half and laugh are emasculated into haff and laff. Iron, which authority allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted...
...matter of good taste in pronunciation, I am inclined to think that the New-Englander makes less culpable divergences from the accepted standard of usage than either of the first two classes, though, be it confessed, the Yankee occasionally falls into an opposite error of making the a too broad, the o too confined, and the r utterly inaudible. In his mouth won't, the contraction for will not, becomes wunt. He is apt to call law lor, America Americar, etc., evidently to atone for his almost universal slight to the r in the middle of a word. Roof, root...