Word: comee
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...unusually steady stroke; his chief fault seems to be in rowing in too mechanical a manner; this does not combine and run into each other the different elements. This tends to make his stroke short. On the recovery his oar goes very high into the air and frequently doesnot come down to the water over the catch as it should...
...familiar with certain verses and charades which have appeared in some of the monthly magazines from time to time can be at loss to name the author of the three Charades; such clever turns and dainty phrazing can come from...
...other point which the writer of the communication touched upon deserves consideration, although not such flagrant examples of this fault as of the other have come to our notice. But certainly if there are men who are tempted to make the struggle about the Tree an occasion for settling old scores, they should learn to choose some other place to do their fighting. The object of the tree exercises is to get the flowers, not to mutilate the next man, and the exercises ought always to be kept within gentemanly bounds. A certain amount of "scrapping" is, as the writer...
...from him. If he wants to wear a loose shirt in which to tuck his flowers, he can wear it outside his canvas jacket, but he ought certainly to wear something under his shirt which will stand rough usage. We are very glad to learn that the matter has come to the notice of the Class Day Committee, and that they are to send out a request to the men to wear canvas jackets or something of the sort at the Tree Exercises. The request ought to be strictly complied with if only for the good name of the University...
...unfortunate that such an interesting lecture as Professor Putnam's promises to be should come so late in the year when people are apt to be busy. It is unfortunate for the subject on which Professor Putnam is to speak is one which is general enough to interest everyone, no matter what his own specialty may be , and it is moreover one which is attractive from its very novelty. There are probably very few men in college who have given much attention to a study of American archaeology, and yet the number is still fewer of those who would...