Word: drawing
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...this plan are obvious. Should it be adopted, the ordinary scratch-race course would be much improved. As the races are, with the exception of single and double sculls, rowed now with coxswains, there would be no difficulty in having the boats shoot the bridges, one boat under the draw and the others under the proposed arches. The only disadvantage of the plan is the difficulty of carrying it into execution; and this, it must be confessed, is a serious drawback. If the change in the construction of these bridges should be made, it would be done at the expense...
...candidates among the class officers, provided that they secure their ends by presenting a strong ticket, and not by cracking a society whip over the heads of the recalcitrant. In point of fact, this seems to be the only way to unite the members of a society and to draw votes from the other elements of the class. In judging the elections we suspect that some, who are dissatisfied, have not wholly freed themselves from the old notions, and, while desiring an open election, have forgotten its very essence. And here it is very properly claimed by the friends...
...class into large sections, and which can be considered as rivals in the feeblest meaning of that term, so long, presumably, society feeling will color the elections. And so far as this is the generous competition of each society to produce the greatest number of suitable candidates to draw the suffrages of the class, who shall say that this artificial stimulus in eliciting the best men for the places is not laudable? This is the new regime, and demands that each element shall present its strongest men as the condition of representation. The evil is for two, three...
...consequence of this accident the work of beginning the other half of the window will be deferred for an indefinite period. The class of '57 started off bravely, but from various causes have delayed taking positive action in the matter until quite recently, when they engaged an artist to draw a cartoon for the window...
PUBLIC attention has of late been called to the gentleman who represents us at the Court of St. James, by the publication of a volume from his pen, discussing in a masterly manner the rules of Draw Poker. Many have thought such a work beneath the dignity of a United States Minister; and the frequency with which this dignity has been urged has revived the memory of an experience of my own which may not prove uninteresting...