Word: cannot
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...benefits sure to accrue to the ward from such action. Wherein lies the difference between an appeal to students and an appeal to the "educated," who are, after all, only students who have graduated from college, and forgotten much if not most of what they have learned there, who cannot act so much as a unit, and who are not so easily accessible as students. Though the latter are less numerous, they should not find themselves entirely neglected, as they are now, on that account. You will very probably say that educated men gain an experience of men and affairs...
...about that which he discussed; and then, in the second place, we regard college societies as strictly private bodies, responsible for their actions only to the Faculty and to themselves; and if they choose to elect men who can stand on their heads and to leave out those who cannot, it is no one's business but their own. We consider it no more our province to pass judgment on the action of societies than to publish the fact that Mr. A of '74 is a fool, that Mr. B of '75 dresses in bad taste, or that...
...hotel accommodations, New London boasts of a new hotel in the city, which they say "cannot be surpassed by any in New England in point of management and by but few in capacity." Besides that, there are three more in the city and two down the harbor. Norwich, with several large hotels, is nearer in point of time to New London than Springfield was last year from the finish of the course. Besides, as the race finishes close to the city, the crowds can go away that evening to Boston, New York, etc., either by boat or by rail...
...Thames cannot be much rougher than the Connecticut at the Peconsic Narrows, which is said to be the roughest place in the whole race, and was yet the starting-place for the last two races...
...south, and at the end of the course Winthrop Point projects well out from the west bank, and so protects the river from below. Moreover, as there is a tide of two feet, there will always be one time of day when the wind and current being together it cannot be very rough, so that the crews will not be deprived of practice for days and days together, as they were at Springfield...