Word: come
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...rakish Fox, and an innocent young Kid once agreed to hunt together, with the agreement that all game should be amicably shared. No sooner were they in the Forest, than the Fox took the Kid aside, and made this harangue: "My dear Kid, you are inexperienced in hunting; come, you and I will hunt together, while this stupid Lion is asleep, and we will divide whatever prey we find, and have the Lion's share to ourselves." To this the Kid readily agreed, and the two succeeded in bringing down a Hare. "You," said the Fox, " are a Vegetarian...
...loss of Mr. Peabody is unfortunate for the Crew. His place will be hard to fill, and it is hoped that a number of good candidates will come forward at once...
...glad to confirm the report that Mr. W. A. Bancroft, '78, will be able to coach the University Crew during the entire year. Every one knows that this is one of the seasons which are sure to come every three or four years, when the crew is composed, for the most part, of new men, and when there is all the more reason why their training should be most carefully looked after. It is safe to say that the men who are to row against Yale next June must be in better form than any Harvard has yet turned...
...which the president makes reply on the opposite page. Beyond the newspaper reading-room is the debating-hall, which was greatly enlarged last summer. A large number of the men who go to Oxford expect to enter public life, for which we have no counterpart in our "politics"; they come up Liberals or Conservatives by education, and the Union debates are, for the most part, on political questions, - live questions, in which all have some concern; hence the debates have an interest and excitement unknown with us. Upstairs is the library, which is now very large, and much more used...
...that the language which our new professor is sent here to teach is the Mandarin, the language of Chinese nobles and officials, and the vehicle of the literature of the country. Mandarin is of no use to the few Harvard students who wish to study Chinese, since they would come in contact only with the Cantonese, who speak a language so different from the Mandarin that our professor himself cannot understand them. Mandarin is, however, valuable for those who wish to enter the Chinese consular service of American and European governments, or the customs service of China itself. When...