Word: forward
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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What difficulties the Company had to encounter at Springfield, and with what energy they pushed their scheme forward, must be apparent to all who have read the Old and New, of October, or the Globe for June 9. To the pioneers in this novel scheme the College owes hearty thanks for having kept alive the old prestige of Harvard's independence and indomitable pluck; for it must be remembered that the operators were unassisted by any other college...
...western bank: Amherst, Massachusetts Agricultural, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Wesleyan, Williams, Dartmouth, Trinity, Bowdoin, and Cornell; the position of the last three almost sealing their fate from the start. It was no ordinary sight, these sixty-six young men, the pick of eleven colleges, presented as they sat there, bending forward, all eyes on the starter, as motionless as statues. The brown skins and developed muscles showed a latent power which was hardly less imposing than when it was called into full play in the grand rush and machine-like movement of the actual race. What they must have felt...
...regards the students at Harvard we hardly know which would be the most dangerous, - the tendency towards rationalistic ideas, so much feared by the gentleman to whom we have referred; or the absolute certainty of an endeavor to bring forward the heretical doctrine of transubstantiation, which is known to be believed by a recent candidate for the bishopric, whose influence the same gentleman thought to be so very necessary for the infidel students at Harvard! The ingenuity of special pleading in defence of "wide and generous views" loses vitality when the speaker is felt to be narrow-minded...
...That is removed now, and in their perfect time and clean feathering throughout the boat they are hardly equalled by the other crews. They have a tendency to hurry up their stroke, and lose a little on their reach by nervously putting their oars in the water before fully forward...
...Dana spoke of a proposed change in the constitution, which should be altered so as to allow graduates to be members, and which looked to the appointment of a treasurer from among the graduates. This measure is to be brought forward next fall. Whether the treasurer is to be a graduate or not, it seems evident that he should not be one of the University or class crews. These men are doing their share of work for the club, and it is imposing too much upon them to require them to be continually planning how to raise and collect funds...