Word: rushing
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...last week had all the appearance of trying their utmost for perfection in rowing. There is not that life and jump throughout the crew which was so noticeable last week. Perkins at No. 5 seems to be responsible for much of this, for he is inclined to rush out on his slide so fast that he has to wait at full reach, thus making a distinct hang. Jennings at No. 4 has lately changed from the starboard to the port side of the boat, but this would hardly account for his lifelessness and evident slowness of movement which breaks...
...twenty-six college-bred 'signers,' Harvard furnished eight - Samuel Adams, John Adams, John Hancock, William Ellery, Elbridge Gerry, R. T. Paine, William Hooper and William Williams; Yale four - Oliver Walcott, 1747; Phillip Livingston, 1737; Lewis Morris, 1746, and Lyman Hall, 1747; Princeton two - Richard Stockton and Benjamin Rush; William and Mary three - Thomas Jefferson, C. Braxton, and George Wythe; College of Philadelphia three - William Paca, Matthew Hopkinson, and James Smith; Cambridge (Eng.) three - Arthur Middleton, Thomas Lynch, and Thomas Nelson; Edinburgh - John Witherspoon. James Wilson studied at Edinburgh, St. Andrews, and Glasgow, and Charles Carroll of Carrollton at several foreign...
William Lewis, Amherst '91, the well-known Harvard centre rush, has been elected by the undergraduates of Amherst to represent that college on the board of arbitration which will decide upon the protests made last fall by Williams and Amherst against the Dartmouth team for playing Caverly under an assumed name...
Bull, who played centre rush on the Pennsylvania eleven this fall, has been elected captain of the crew there in place of Wagonhurst, resigned...
...shows up in the most ludicrous light the defects in our political system, so that politicians themselves are kept in a constant laughter. The satirical view in which the comedy is written and the clever manner in which the leading character is developed make the entertainment especially attractive. Miss Rush, as Cleopatra Sturgis, the Twentieth Century Woman, is undoubtedly a great success. Combining with beauty the talents of a truly delightful comedian, she draws to herself the absorbing interest of an admiring audience. She wears the mannish costumes most gracefully and is charming throughout...