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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...past week or more a considerable number of men have been on the field indulging in this game, and the Twelve, if we may believe report, is in very good condition, all things considered, and there is every prospect of a match with Columbia. While we are bound to regard with some jealousy any sport that is likely to draw away good material from the Eleven and Nine, and divide the interest to any considerable extent, still there seems to be room for all. So we wish those interested in Lacrosse all success, and shall watch their progress with much...
Boxer was a sly fellow. He had always managed to get ahead of me thus far. I was bound to pay him up sometime for the many jokes he had had at my expense. One day I heard him say he was going cod-fishing next morning at three o'clock, off Mackerel Point. Now was my chance. I'd set out at two, get on the ground first, and catch all the fish before he was up. Then how I would grin at him when he came along an hour afterward! With what coolness I would hold...
...iconoclast's hammer waves high 'gainst the stern and rock-bound wall." - Gimlet...
REPORT OF THE CLASS OF 1860. New York : 1880. Printed for the use of the class. Francis M. Weld, Esq., the Class Secretary of '60, has got out the most interesting Class Report of any that we have yet seen. It comprises a volume of 246 pages, neatly bound in half calf. Naturally most of the book will be of especial interest to members of the class itself, and by them it will be most appreciated. But, graduating just on the verge of the Civil War, many of its number entered the army and won for themselves reputation of more...
...Contrast this state of affairs with that which many of us, now undergraduates, can recall, and the marked advance in our general rowing will be easily appreciable. Four years ago, before the old club system had reached its end, the crews of the club-houses rowed at spasmodic intervals, bound together by no ties of class or association, but merely by the tie of locality. The oarsmanship displayed in the races was of the crudest form; and the contests failed to call out more than a feeble enthusiasm in the College at large. Now, at least four months before...