Word: familiar
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...committee of four graduates, only one of whom had rowed in recent years, was appointed to take charge of boating matters. Naturally enough they strove to inculcate in the crew those principles with which they were most familiar, viz., those which pertained to the English or Bancroft system of rowing. Despite the fact that the method introduced by Storrow had brought about the over-whelming defeat of the Yale giants in '85, despite the manifest adoption by Yale of the essential feature of this method, and her consequent successes and despite the marked improvement in the speed of the boat...
Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations...
Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations...
Bartlett's "Familiar Quotations...
...another column will be found an account of an important movement among the graduates of other colleges now attending Harvard. These men are familiar with both the conservative and liberal systems, and are therefore better fitted to judge than men who know but one side. That there is a great opportunity for such work as they propose to do is proved by the score of editorials which have appeared in the college papers founded, in most cases, as we believe, upon ignorance, not upon malice. The men who have come here from other colleges have been attracted by the superior...