Word: sail
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Later on some of her neighbor's children played rough games with her boys and beat them. One of them said that her youngest boy Johnny was afraid, because he wouldn't come out and sail boats with...
...discovery of truth in spiritual things. We are more afraid of believing something which we ought not to believe than of not believing something which we ought to believe. We distrust the enthusiasm of faith. As we loose our ship from any mooring of the past, to sail into any great uncertain ocean of the future, we are more ready to listen to the malarial voices which cry to us from the shore "Begone! Begone!" than to hear the great deep, with its unbounded inspirations bidding us "Come on! Come on!" Who of us does not know this temper...
...return to the crew's daily routine. After breakfast, the men do whatever they feel like. Some sit down to write letters, some read or talk, - I have seen none studying as yet. Others amuse themselves by watching through a telescope the various steam yachts and sail-boats which are continually passing. At about ten the crew walk down to the little boat-house, and get ready for their morning pull. The shell in use now is the old '85 boat, in which the 'varsity won their races last year. It is probably not quite as strong and stiff...
...Perkins, '87, will act as Managing Editor of the CRIMSON during the absence of Mr. W. T. Talbot, who will sail for Norway within a few days...
Professor Lowell will sail for England on the twenty-seventh of March...