Word: five
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Professor Dana has begun a course of five lectures on Evolution...
...unusually heavy expenses of last year - five new boats being required, and the crew being kept in training for two races - have left us a debt of about twenty-six hundred dollars. Thirty-five hundred has been this year subscribed. Of this, all that has been yet paid in has gone, with one hundred dollars from other sources, to pay off the debt, which has been thereby reduced to about one thousand dollars, - an amount still sufficient to swallow up nearly all that is likely, as experience has shown, to be collected from the subscription-list. The crew will thus...
Wednesday, Jan. 10. - Twelve men present. The captain "coached." The "pull" was five hundred strokes, and the "run" two miles. Instead of the "run" some of the men skated on the river. A slight tendency to use the arms too soon in the stroke was noticed. The shoulders were not kept down and "square" as a rule. The men got better together than on the two previous evenings. Some of the men appeared unskilful in handling the "levers," and from the frequent "break downs" that happen it is evident that the greatest care should be exercised in working the machines...
Thursday, Jan. 11. - Eleven men at work. Captain "coached." Pull five hundred and fifty strokes. Run two miles. The men go too far back in the stroke, and there is a tendency to "jerk" the last part. The arms are not shot out quickly and smoothly enough at the beginning of the recover. The time is good occasionally, but needs more careful attention on the part of the men. To-night a slight improvement in the shoulders and upper part of the body was noticed...
...Dean's report concerning the examinations for admission in 1876 we learn that fifty-two per cent of the candidates failed to pass in English composition, while the percentage of those who failed in Greek composition was only twenty-seven per cent, and in Latin only twenty-five per cent...