Word: restful
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...reward for their victory over the Yale freshmen, the '87 men at Brown will be allowed to carry canes during the rest of the year...
after a short rest, Playing was resumed. Again the Princeton men were fortunate, for Blakemore, getting a fair shot at ten years, threw a pretty line shot, which scored the second goal for the Priceton team. Time 23 minutes. On changing sides again, Harvard showed up better and continued to force things more than at first. But princeton still made many desperate attacks on their goal. While the ball was being played in the centre of the field, Churchill, '86, threw a beautiful overhand shot, sticks were checked, and the ball unmolested went through the Princeton goal on the first...
...inconsistency of the translator : "It is positively unpardonable that Ensign Man should stand unchanged, when it can be exactly translated by Signifier Homo. The translator neglects also to turn the given name Cotton into Gossipium, Penn into Stylus, Prince into Princeps, True into Verus, Clark into Scriba, Rest into Requies, Kinsman into Consanguineous, Oxenbridge into Bovepons; Greenlief into Viridfolium, etc., and he was doubtless utterly stumped by Nyot, Leverett, Zoheth, Gad, Elbtidge, Epes, Byron and Shearjashub. Many Hebrew names stand unchanged, as Jared, Samuel, Benjamin, Thomas. James is "Latinized" into Jacobus, so that no "us" can be attached to Jacob...
...still an open question as to whether the fast stroke is a better one than the old one, still, to most minds, the proof of the stroke is whether it wins or not. And if a crew believe they can win by adopting this stroke, we can rest assured that they will adopt it, if permitted to do so. It is very obvious that if the crews are all to abandon the regular Harvard stroke which has been proved to be the best one for a four mile race, their whole use would be merely nil; they would be worse...
...finish, when he ran ahead and won easily in the time of 2 min., 11 and a fraction seconds. The last race runwas a 220 yards, between Hardy and Rogers of the freshman class. Hardy won after a hot race during the first part of the way. The rest of the races which were not walkovers, will be decided on Saturday, at the university meeting...