Word: thrust
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...promote athletic interests, or perhaps, rather, to save them? Is there not a direct opposition in the two ideas, lower the competitive element, and support the interests of athletics? It has always seemed to me that competition is the very coundation upon which all athletics rest. Any thrust which diminishes competition will diminish in exact ratio the amount of interest taken in our sports, and as a direct result the amount of exercise taken by our undergraduates. We hardly like to realize this perhaps, but it is a fact too important to overlook and too evident to contradict. Twenty years...
...failure in the acquisition of the useless-while we apply this inconceivably irrational process to Greek and Latin, and to no other language ever taught under the sun-while we thus accumulate instruction without education, and feel no shame or compunction if at the end of many years we thrust our youth, in all their unwarned ignorance, through the open gate of life-while, I say, such a system as this continues and flourishes, which most practical men have long scorned with an immeasurable contempt, do not let us consider that we have advanced a single step in reforming education...
...should have enjoyed our visit to Harvard more completely if we had not had the uncomfortable sense of being very conspicuous. To be sure, a procession of sixty girls marching about among those solemn old buildings, is not an every-day sight; but when heads were thrust out of every window, and there were, unmistakably, audible signs of amusement, we wished that we were not altogether such a big, unwieldy body, that we might get speedily out of sight. Now, each student who watched us, if he had met us personally, would, we are sure, have had the manners...
...this event, and of these Underwood was the only one who had fenced in the gymnasium before. As Foote had drawn the bye, the first bout was between Smith and Underwood. Both men appeared quite proficient, and displayed great agility in lunging and parrying. Underwood's left-handed thrust proved very effective. He succeeded by a dexterous turn in disarming his antagonist several times, and finally won the bout by 7 points...
...Boston Herald editorially expresses its belief that compulsory attendance at chapel is a relic of the Dark Ages. It says that "religion cannot be thrust down men's throats...