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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...diversity and variety among the passengers was even greater than among the crew. For instance, I noticed a young man of prepossessing appearance who spoke English a little, and who I took to be a native of Southern Europe, but I soon found that he understood neither Italian, French, nor Spanish. "Perhaps," said I to myself," he is a German." I tried him on my limited stock of German, and found he did not know a word of it. That finished me, and I gave him up as a hopeless case. Some time afterwards it occurred to me to smoke...
...board several English noblemen, among whom was the Duke of Sutherland, who is famous at home for going to all the fires in London. The policemen on the beats near his home have standing instructions to call him whenever there is a fire of any consequence anywhere in the city. He was the roughest-looking person on the ship in his attire. The Indian English, of whom there were a great number on board, were more intelligent and infinitely more agreeable and courteous than their countrymen who have always lived at home. They appear to have lost their insularity...
...especial care has been bestowed for many months, is now often almost entirely neglected in the eager effort to review a year's work in a few days. It does not seem out of place, therefore, to look back on the history of those associations which have been founded among us with the design of promoting physical development, in order to see how many of their early promises they have redeemed...
...certain number. Other means of social enjoyment in college we have not. A Harvard Union, the plan for which was ably set forth in a recent number of the "Crimson," would, setting the debates and literary work aside, do much to promote a better feeling and understanding among men of different sets. Now, it is certainly perfectly natural for men of kindred tastes to associate, and form a little, world by themselves; but is there not some slight danger of this being carried too far? Many a man who seems distasteful at first, and whom we may avoid through college...
...very good night's rest, and in consequence, did not make as good a display as they should have done in Friday's game. They were met in the morning by several of the Yale Nine, who very politely drove them about the city, showing them among other things their new boat-house, a very fine building which cost about $ 20,000. The new Chapel now in course of erection promises to be very handsome and an ornament to the College. An invitation was extended to the Nine to remain over that evening to a supper, but, knowing the work...