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...their rowing. The men are apt not to make the most of the coaching, and do not study their faults enough. As a crew they row short. The recover is hurried and not smooth, and there is not enough life in the catch and heave. Most of the men fail to swing well from their hips, thereby getting a weak stroke and tiring themselves. The usual tendency to contract the stomach, instead of letting it take care of itself and hang naturally, is noticeable. This fault must be overcome if the men don't want to be used...
...appeal very strongly to a cultivated audience, as the lecturer will treat of the Greek vase paintings in their relation to the Homeric poems and the later epics. The literary side and the artistic side of the subject will be treated hand in hand, in a way that cannot fail to be of value to the scholar and of interest to the general student. The lectures will be open to the public...
...Longfellow Memorial Fund, on the evening of the poet's birthday, Feb. 27th, promises to offer an unusually attractive programme. The object for which the entertainment is to be held is so worthy of encouragement, and the interest in the matter is so great, that the affair cannot fail to be a success. Several well-known authors have shown their interest by offering to read selections from their own works. Among them are the following: Julia Ward Howe, Edward Everett Hale, Thomas Wentworth Higginson, William Winter, Louise Chandler Moulton, John Boyle O'Reilly, George Parsons Lathrop, Charles Follen Adams...
...passage of this bill would fail to accomplish the object desired, because more than two-thirds of the illiterates in the South are too old to attend school.- Tenth Census...
...manners-a Cambridge street car. My wanderings for the past two or three years have given me a good deal of experience in these vehicles, and I want to say that in scarcely more than half a dozen instances, all told, have I seen Harvard men fail of courtesy to other passengers. Many men are coming to be indifferent to the claims of women to any other treatment than they themselves receive in the cars, but it is a very rare experience for me to see a lady, whether young or old, plain or pretty, enter a car when students...