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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...greatly shocked at reading in the Journal of Wednesday last the intelligence of this sad accident, which befell him just as he was returning to his college and classmates for the last time. We sincerely hope that he will sufficiently recover from this unfortunate and lamentable accident to come among us once more...
Oratory is the other field of usefulness, in training for which our places of education are wanting. The mere faculty of expressing one's thoughts with facility and grace is not uncommon among us; but behind and above all this there are certain conditions, indispensable to the making of the real orator, consisting, as the treatment of this subject by Cicero has admirably shown, in a general and detailed acquaintance with all departments of knowledge. To satisfy these conditions, by commencing the training here and marking out a distinct practical road for the student to follow afterward, should...
...everywhere proudly displayed, and the incidents of the race were gone over again and again. Gradually the excitement subsided, and as the moments went by it was evident that another dreary time of waiting was inevitable. To relieve the monotony, small bets and dollar sweep-stakes were made, and among the large family-parties luncheons were eaten before hungry collegians, whose only solace was pea-nuts or doubtful lemonade. On the eastern shore, "The Death of the Rat," a tragedy in several acts, was performed before a select audience...
...Yale Courant contains an editorial upon the difficulty among the Freshman crews, in which it again asserts the Yale view of the matter. The Amherst crew have been a little sarcastic at the expense of the New Haven oarsmen. They say in a communication: "We have endeavored to look at the matter 'in a reasonable light,' and while we should be extremely sorry to see the Freshman race a failure, as Harvard has a crew chosen in accordance with the rules of the Association, we do not deem the presence of the Yale crew an indispensable necessity to insure...
Tottering, trip among their fellows...