Word: forth
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...impatient to start, that I am afraid I was for a moment disgusted with the honest skipper. He went up to the hotel, and soon returned with a suspiciously large lunch for one person. We took the little fishing-sloop that lay bumping against the pier, and started forth. The wind had freshened, and the sea was pretty rough. The Rosa was just in sight, and we bore down upon it with all sail, - which was one sail. I was trembling with excitement, and I could see that even the grim old captain was not indifferent to the emotions...
...another column we publish a communication upon what the writer considers dangerous concessions on the part of the College to the principle of co-education. The special grievance that has called this forth is that ladies are allowed to attend Professor Hedge's lectures in German 8, - a regular College course, - and that they have come in such numbers that the elective has been assigned to a new room, Harvard 6, in which there are no facilities for writing, and the ventilation is notoriously bad. So far as this is concerned, we entirely agree with the writer when he says...
...possible was done by the McGill men to make them feel welcome. The morning was devoted to events like the hammer, shot, jumping, &c., which often become tedious, owing to the large number of trials required, leaving the afternoon entirely free for the running and walking races, which called forth a much larger assemblage of spectators. Wendell, '82, succeeded in winning the 100-yards dash in 10 1/3 sec., thus bettering the American College record at that distance, held formerly by Mr. H. H. Lee, of the University of Pennsylvania, who was credited with 10 1/5 sec. at the Intercollegiate...
...following poem, composed under the fostering influence of these easy rules, will amply set forth the beauties of the new school...
...volume, nor do we wish it. In one branch, that of geology, the right step has been taken. A description of all courses given has been published, in which the desired information is to be found. In the first place, the importance of the study of geology is set forth in a clear and forcible manner, but none too much so. The intimate relation of geology to all the other sciences and the almost absolute necessity of grasping it first in order to comprehend them; its connection with the development of life, both organic and inorganic; and, above...