Word: backed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...advises, too, going back to turning races, fouling being made impossible by each boat having its own stake, and by having twenty feet fenced off by buoys between the two courses...
...their part, still is unpardonable, and it would be well in future for students who contemplate indulging in this kind of pastime, to pay a little regard to the feelings of the graduates. For they must know that graduates feel that they have a peculiar right to come back to the old spot once a year and enjoy themselves by themselves, and they regard as an intrusion the entrance of undergraduates on what they consider, and justly too, their own domain. This encroachment was particularly noticeable last Commencement Day, and in one or two cases under-classmen deliberately marched into...
MILTON."SKIP the poetry." Chum's eyes were weak, after the midyear grind, and I was reading the Crimson to him as he sat, with his back to the fire, gazing partly into vacancy, and partly at a photograph of one of Raphael's Madonnas, which adorned our modest study. We had read all about the grievances of the Memorial Hall victims which are almost as enlivening as the old plank-walk appeals; all the discussions intended to prove that a man who wears a clean shirt insults a man who does not, or (and to the latter opinion...
Each echoed back an angry roar...
Thus, in looking over back numbers of the College papers, we find innumerable articles on the state of the Gymnasium, on the condition of the food at Memorial Hall, etc., which complaints are perfectly just, and so are generally published and read, although they become rather monotonous by repetition. Against these we have nothing to say, as it is only by reiterated complaints in the papers that the desires of the students are noticed by the Faculty or Corporation...