Word: keeping
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...support than it is at present receiving. It is the oldest and largest of our musical organizations. Last year it took part in but two concerts, one in December and one in May, and both in Cambridge. With such a long interval of rest it is very difficult to keep alive an interest in the rehearsals. The orchestra is now rehearsing regularly and promises to be quite up to its old standard. The necessary stimulus would be supplied if some of the friends of the organization would procure invitations for it to play in neighboring cities. The Glee club...
...annual Fall Athletic games held last month, no college records were broken although a number of close records were made. No particularly promising material for this branch of athletics has as yet been shown among the freshmen. In order to keep up the interest in and encourage long distance running a series of Hare and Hounds runs are to be held Saturday afternoons...
...must be accorded more privileges in them than the students themselves it looks very much as if college games were properly professional contests-and that would be but another way of saying that they had missed their object. Their only purpose, so far as we can see, is to keep alive a thorough-going spirit of manly enthusiasm among the students to act as it were hand in hand with our other advantages here. If, then, athletics are for the students rather than for the world, it seems but fair that the students should reap the benefits of the games...
...Briggs will be unable to keep his office hours this afternoon...
...great difference in the build of the oars. Oxford uses oars with 3 feet 9 inches "in board length," Cambridge with 3 feet 10 inches "in board length." The extra length "in board" must give gieater power of leverage and a stronger finish. It certainly prevents any difficulty in keeping the button against the pin at both ends of the stroke an important principle in watermanship. Rowing at Cambridge has for sixteen years been under the charge of Mr. Herbert Rhodes. The principles of his system are: The hands must shoot away smartly from the chest; as they release...