Word: drag
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...mindedness, is, however, not in the least cynical, and if it fails to convince some of us, it is not because the article is not pleasantly written. Of the two pieces of verse, "Winter Dreams" is poetical in conception, but the imagery seems to lack originality, and the lines drag. "River Wind," on the other hand, is really an excellent bit of verse. The idea is extremely poetical, the language, although very simple, is also poetical, while the swing of the lines carries the reader along. The theme of the poem reminds one instantly of Hovey, with whose lyrics...
...habit of doing work with lively interest. That attitude will be most valuable in after life, as everything worth while in the world is accomplished by work. Secondly, the new student should choose good companionship. He should choose an environment and surroundings that will lift him up and not drag, him down. If he makes those two choices rightly, if he chooses the right work and the right friends, he will succeed in college and in after life...
...slipped it forward by grinding his shoulder on the floor. It was then possible for him to unbuckle this strap with his teeth, and to undo with his hands, although enclosed in the sleeves, the strap behind his neck. Thus the jacket was sufficiently loosened to enable him to drag it over his head...
...Regatta Concert" that evening, given by the Cornell glee and mandolin clubs, a box was reserved for the visiting crew, and "Fair Harvard" was one of the numbers on the program. Shortly after breakfast the next morning, the manager appeared at the hotel with a drag and four horses, and invited the entire squad of twelve Harvard men to drive with him along the shores of Lake Cayuga, and in the afternoon special seats were reserved for them at the Pennsylvania-Cornell ball game. Immediately after the race the Cornell men aided those whom they had just defeated in getting...
William Scollay Whitwell '03, left Cambridge on the night of Thursday, February 26, and has not been definitely heard of since. He wrote a note saying that he was under a temporary fit of mental delusion and, to avoid being a drag on his family and friends, he would commit suicide by jumping off the Fall river boat. The note was received in Cambridge the next day. Thee porter and the newsboy on the boat, however, state that they saw him get off the boat on Friday morning and the baggage agent on the wharf asserts to have seen...