Word: coolness
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...digest our food before rowing. On assembling around the table we were greeted by the familiar face of Robert Churchill, the cook, and two dark satellites of his whose features were unknown to us. About two hours after dinner, everything being ready, we took a short row in the cool of the evening...
...subject to write upon. But we doubt if it is so pleasing for the students who toil on their examinations in these rooms. It seems to be a regular feature of examination rooms to be too cold when we want them warm and too warm when we want them cool. It may be that students, when under the strain of an examination, are very difficult to please, and therefore their complaints should carry little weight, but we always feel so much compassion for the proctors during this trying period that we think a little more care might be taken...
...Clipper says of the Lehigh tug-of-war team at the games, that their previous work gave them courage, which did not prevail against the superior ability of the better-drilled Harvards, whose anchor, cool as an iceberg, exercised intelligent control over...
...with one another's style of play, and tends to make the nine a unit. The games with the Brown freshmen and Andover Academy are different. The playing will be more even, and '87 will have a chance to learn, perhaps, that it is necessary to keep cool when the score is close, and not get "rattled" and go to pieces if at any time their adversaries have a lead in the score. '87, with the material which it has, ought to come out of these next few games with a good clean record of victories...
...bicycling, and riding horseback, but if carried to excess they are positively detrimental to the nervous system. This is the great trouble with our athletic clubs and college societies. All sorts of feats are indulged in for personal gratification, for medals, for money. How can a student give that cool, deliberative thought to his books while his mind is fevered with the excitement of the coming regatta, or his dreams are disturbed by visions of victory is the next day's base-ball game? The Hemenway system, as practiced at Harvard, is being successfully introduced in many of the colleges...