Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...half a mile up the river. Columbia started at 39 and Harvard at 35 strokes a minute, the former straining for the lead, and the latter doing steady, strong work. At first Columbia obtained a slight advantage and led by three yards at the railroad bridge; but when the lower bridge was reached, Harvard's slow and steady work had brought her a foot or two ahead, and now this lead was steadily increased. Columbia struggled desperately, and hung on for another half-mile, and up to that point, a little below the first mile-flag, she gave Harvard...
...doubly so when a proctor wears them in examination; trebly so when the aforesaid proctor determines to take his "constitutional" in said boots in said examination-room. A piteous story might be told of a man who by accident has to sit within two feet of damp, cold walls (lower Mass. last Monday, for example) in a rheumatic, backless chair, and listen to the warlike tread of the officious guardian proctor, all the while attempting - can he be blamed if he fails? - to calmly reason on the probable result of increasing population and capital, on rents, profits, and wages. With...
...scene at the end of the first half of the game, when the "muckers," unrestrained in the least degree by the police, rushed in and covered the grounds, was highly discreditable to all those who had the management of the game. The view of the ladies on the lower benches was obstructed for some time, and general discomfort resulted to all who had tickets. We do not believe that the trouble was wholly due to the police, who have hitherto done their part in a satisfactory manner; but the officers of the Foot-Ball Club are rather to blame...
...moral standard of the College is lower than ever before in its history, and Harvard is now acknowledged to be the most immoral, extravagant, and unchristian educational institution in the land...
...listens for a minute while my indignation is rising and my words are growing louder; but before my wrath boils over, he floods me with such a torrent of rich brogue, which I cannot understand, that I am left completely at his mercy. The faster he talks the lower my spirits sink. Being possessed of the advantage of being able to understand what I say, while my replies to him are made without the remotest idea of what I am answering, he has me at his mercy; and I sink exhausted into my armchair, while he chatters himself victoriously...