Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...course - which was laid out by guesswork - proved, on being surveyed after the races, to be 130 feet 9 inches short of the proper distance. Hence the exact speed of the crews over a course of the proper length can only be guessed at. Altogether the regatta cannot be called an unqualified success...
...plan is this - Don't you think, Mr. Editor, it would work? Of course examinations cannot be arranged so as to please every one; but to me it seems very unjust that some men should have so much less time to prepare them than others have. I know of one case (my own) where the poor fellow has five exams in three days, and the first three days of the first week. Now my cousin has five examinations in three weeks, with plenty of time to prepare them, and time to go to the theatre...
...into Memorial Hall, though rapidly growing in favor among certain students, is not one that recommends itself for universal adoption. We admit that we have never belonged to a base-ball nine, that we are prejudiced, and that we perhaps even deserve to be called squeamish, but still we cannot help objecting to the practice. From an aesthetic point of view blouses of gray trimmed with crimson are not beautiful, and we have been told that one of the advantages gained by boarding in Memorial Hall is the refinement given by the artistic surroundings. Our second objection, it is true...
...student finds a book out, he is allowed to put down his name for it, and when it is returned to the library he is notified, and the book is reserved for him. This privilege is not allowed him in the case of novels, on what ground we cannot conceive, unless it be that novels are not worth reserving; and it is to this restriction that we refer. The idea that novels are not as valuable as other works is certainly erroneous, for some of our greatest scholars advise, and themselves practise, constant novel-reading. But apart from its literary...
...longer an amateur by the rule. Now almost all our amateur fours, including the Columbia Four, rowed last year in races against the crew in which Smith pulled. Therefore, having competed with one who was not an amateur by the rule, by the rule they too are disqualified and cannot row as amateurs. Columbia may win in England, but by the rule she can be disqualified, as can almost any other of our amateur fours...