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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...possible somewhere else. Associations with old rooms they cannot transplant, but what can be done they agree to do. The only expense to which the societies will be put is the insurance upon the building, which may amount to two hundred dollars a year, but which, when divided among four clubs, will not be a burden...
...summoned on Monday an officer of the Hasty Pudding Club, and said that, while he had no desire to interfere with the private affairs of the society, he was obliged to ask them to discontinue the "running," because it created a public disturbance. Naturally this request caused some excitement among the members of the club, and they felt unwilling to abandon what they considered a custom of long standing. The President assures them that the custom is not an old one, and there the matter stands. Considered purely in the light of an affair between the President and a society...
...shell. Seligman hugged the bank so closely after starting that he succeeded in running aground several times before the stake-boats were reached. He pulled a rather quick and strong stroke, but used his arms too much and swung his body too little, - a fault very common among men who have learned to scull in boats with sliding seats. Danforth turned first, and won easily by about thirty seconds. He pulled a long, easy stroke, and showed pretty good form...
...have examined the matter and find that the case is not quite as bad as this. One cannot give his room to any particular man, but the new arrangement provides a way by which he can make over his right to several men, as it were, who will struggle among themselves, and the luckiest will take the room...
There is, too, strange and sad as it may seem, a feeling among the more intellectual circles that the coming man will not be a Cartesian. A gentleman connected with the College said to me the other day that Descartes's writings would be regarded in a few years as interesting for intellectual gymnastics, but intrinsically valueless; and whenever I breathe the names of the philosophers I have been so laboriously mastering (?) for the last three years, whether it is Noah Porter or Descartes, whether among my friends or in the "causeries de has bleus" which I attend...