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...Sewall, Rev. Samuel May, Lucy Stone, William L. Bowditch, John G. Whittier, T. W. Higginson, Rev. James Freeman Clarke, Willim Lloyd Garrison, Jr., Julia Ward Howe, Hon. Albert Palmer, Ednah D. Cheney, H. B. Blackwell, Elizur Wright, Hon. Thomas Russell, Richard P. Hallowell, Chas. W. Slack and George W. Lowther...
...considered an open question whether a freshman crew can be got into shape in time by commencing after Christmas. Again, a long course of training tends, especially among new men, to weed out all who do not take interest in their work, and those who are apt to be slack in observing training rules. So it will readily be seen that there are reasons why the freshman crew should train the whole nine months...
...amazing to read the names of the young "Lieuts., U. S. N.," who visited the library in the "forties." Business in their line seems to have been slack during the "calm" before the war. On June 19, 1843, in a faltering but plain hand, Robert Andrews of Bridgton, Me., 91 years old, records, "I was at the battle of Bunker Hill." On the same page John Tyler, Sr., Washington, has written his name with a firmness of hand and an amount of ink that insures it preservation "till the coming of time." With the same plainness of writing...
...same weakness as follows: "A man swims further than any other man - professor; a man cuts corns and cures bunions for a living - professor; he waltzes three hours without resting - professor; plays the fiddle and imparts to others the secrets of the diabolical art - professor; walks a slack rope stretched across the street - professor; goes without eating twenty days - professor; rides four horses bareback - professor; sings in the choir - professor; teaches a brass band - professor; cures warts - professor; plays billiards for a living - professor; trains dogs - professor; performs some clever trick of sleight of hand - professor; does anything...
...position of anchor requires a great deal of tact and skill, especially in taking up the rope as the team comes up after a pull. An anchor may also materially help his team by practising various artifices to deceive the other team, as apparently rising and taking in the slack of the rope, thereby throwing the opponents off their guard for a moment. Upon the anchor also devolves the principal work between the pulls, for he has to hold almost the entire pull if the enemy make a sudden effort which is not quickly responded to by his team. Every...