Word: thus
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...snap) off the stretcher and from the thighs. Almost, but not quite at the same moment, the legs begin their office. They drlve-drive the slide back and the oar through as the body swings until towards the finish the knees are flattened down and the stroke is thus pressed in a firm and solid sweep right home on to the chest, the outside hand of elbow being swung past the side and the shoulders rowed back. The pressure is not relaxed for a moment since the finish is the most important part of the whole stroke. For a good...
...first set without difficulty, 6-2, In the next set, however, he showed evieence of fatigue, and lost 1-6. He won four games in the deciding set, but Stetson rallied and took three in succession. Then Lee managed to win two more games and the set, thus taking second prize...
...many advantages as a place for a school. The climate is good for at least eight months in the year, all the comforts of any European capital can be got there, the students are surroueded by classical objects, and it is a centre for students of other nations, thus bringing together a large number of intellectual men. Great advances have been made in excavations the past few years and Athens grows more and more sugg stive of its former self. Railroads are being built and soon traveling will be made much easier...
...Friday's issue of the CRIMSON the time for the start of the first hare and hounds run was announced as 4.25. Was not that a misprint? The runs have heretofore always been started at 3.30. Even as early in the season as this it grows dark at 5.15, thus giving no chance for a good run if started at the time originally stated. If 4.25 was a misprint it will doubtless be corrected. If not, will not the H. A. A. start the run at the usual time as it will insure a good run and enough men will...
...college may do for them, and forget, or at least disregard, their own duties to the college. What we need to do here is to exercise our freedom in a manly direction. After all, it is not athletics nor even endowments and advantages which make the college-but men. Thus it is that the present and the future usefulness and worth of Harvard must be largely of our own making...