Word: upsetting
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...single scull race had three entries - Philip Nichols '95, W. S. Youngman '95, and G. H. Noyes '97. Nichols, when well down the course, got upset, and his two opponents rowed to his aid. After giving him the assistance he needed, the two rowed for the finish, Youngman crossing first...
...Ryder '97, was rowing down the river in a wherry, when the boat struck against the piles of the Boylston street bridge and stuck there. In trying to push off, the wherry was upset, and Ryder being unable to extricate his feet from the straps, was dragged under the boat. He at length managed to free himself and reach the surface, but not until he had almost lost consciousness, and was unable to swim ashore...
...this would give some likelihood of a coincidence with pleasant weather. There is hardly a week in the year which is more likely to be stormy than the first in April, and gentlemen long connected with the University say that the plans of vacation after vacation have been upset by this circumstance...
These, however, are only the minor difficulties. The great mass of men find themselves sometimes in life and most likely during the college life, to be upset upon the main doctrine they have been taught to believe. They lose their child like faith, and despair of ever regaining it. Then is a dark interlude and yet that interlude ought to come to every man, it is essential to real belief. As the old philosophers put it, we have position, opposition and composition. We doubt the doctrine, we find its contradictions and then we unite all once more and the truth...
...usual time of the recess and a change in the date, in some cases, will seriously affect their plans. Moreover, the manager of the nine has arranged many of the dates of the spring games, and if this change is made at this late date it will wholly upset his schedule, and shorten the base ball season in addition. In many ways this meditated change of the April recess will be very unwelcome to the college and it is to be hoped that it will not be made...