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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...select and train our crew, and who will shape our boating policy for the next summer," are fully sensible of the interest that graduates feel in our boating welfare, and we earnestly hope that they will not only give us their views on rowing, but will also give us liberal subscriptions to the end that those views may be carried...
...present mode of government in England, France, Germany, and Russia could not be given in history, and it would be difficult to find a more useful one. Such a course would enable one not only to read to the best advantage the contemporary literature of our own country, but also would give one a firmer hold on, and a stronger interest in, the literature of other countries. Besides, it is a knowledge we must gain before we can hope for the reputation of being liberally educated, and there will be no future time when we can expect such aids...
...School has recently received Probst's "Portrait Study," a painting sent by Austria to Philadelphia, where it obtained a prize; also, some autotypes of Michael Angelo's frescos in the Sistine Chapel, a copy of the "Wrestlers" from a Florence gallery, and a collection of casts from the principal statues and busts in the Vatican have been added to the school's collection. Two prizes of $50 each, and two of $100 each, are annually given for the best specimens of drawing and painting by the students...
...closed to you. At the same time you can expect to know a reasonable number of ladies, and if you take advantage of the introductions which I took the trouble to procure for you, you can expect to know ladies whose acquaintance will be not only agreeable, but also useful to you, as you grow to be an older and a greater man. The refining influence of female society is a subject that has been so thoroughly exhausted of late years that I will not bore you by entering upon it. I shall only advise you to avoid what...
...play with us was debated. One speaker said "that no challenge should be sent to Harvard for a match in the spring; that it was desirable to make this match an annual one, and playing too often would be the surest means of breaking it down altogether. He thought also that Harvard was too strong a club to risk a game against without the training and practice that could only be got in the fall." His view seems to have been adopted by a majority of the club, and accordingly we shall receive no challenge from McGill this year...