Word: tasks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...members of the crew begin to train until after the holidays. This method has worked so well that this year the whole crew has been kept off the weights until the present time, and as an immediate result the men show a decidedly greater interest in the task before them. This good result will surely be followed by others of equal importance. The work now being done is light in comparison with what will be required after the mid-years. At present the crew content themselves with a short pull of about three hundred strokes and a run of half...
...crews, there are six of last year's crew in college, and should all be persuaded to row. In addition to these we hope to see a hearty response to Capt. Hammond's call for more men, made at the boat club meeting Tuesday evening. We have no easy task before us, a fact which is fully appreciated by every member of the crew. For the past three years Yale has had a phenomenally heavy and muscular crew. This is the last year in which five of her best men will appear in her boat, and we may be sure...
...last year's race would have been had Harvard remained at New London. It is impossible to forecast the result but I have no hesitation in saying that if our crew is in as good condition next June as it was last July, Harvard will have no easy task to take the colors...
During the coming season, then, an earnest and decided move should be made toward the permanent and effective establishment of class nines. Our ball players ought not to shrink from the task because it requires a certain amount of time and trouble. If the rowing men in the classes are willing to undergo two months of monotonous gymnasium training, work on the river in all sorts of weather, and make other equally great sacrifices for the sake of their class and the prospects of the university crew, surely it is not asking too much of our base-ball players...
...same spirit that he might have displayed if he were making a short address to some philosophic convention. Another student was called and told to take the next topic. He proceeded in the addressive style, as had his classmate, and so others were called until all the appointed task had been recited. Then the class became a sort of debating society, in which the subject matter recited was the topic under consideration. All manner of puzzling and insinuative questions were put to the old professor for expounding, and he expounded each and every one to the satisfaction...