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Junior A--Stroke, K. M. White; 7, W. K. Manly; 6, J. DeW. Blosser; 5, Moorfield Storey; 4, P. B. Huntington; 3, W. F. Hyland; 2, F. P. Taft; bow, P. C. Murfitt; cox, I. H. Gororitz
...number of entries in the University Wherry race was so small that the officials in charge of the Regatta conscripted one Freshmen oarsman to make the race more interesting. He rowed, and won. M. DeW. Howe '28 has the honor of being the first Freshman ever to win the University Wherry Race...
...ances tors, and broke his riding-whip over the head of any man who looked askance at it. There were times when, whatever he might fee doing, the memory of Lavinia, vagrant and unsummoned, would bring about him the sense of invisible flowers chilled under webs of cold dew, and a voice would weep and implore in his heart, like the weeping, the imploring, of the fiddles of Todd Hundred. Mastering the longing of his thoughts to lose themselves in the past, he married Lucia Mathews, a lovely and courageous woman, who bore his children and loved him well...
...sweet birds of the Lord With earth's waters make accord: The Muses' sacred grove be wet With the red dew of Olivet, And Sappho lay her burning brows In white Cecilia's lap of snows...
...experiments in diction and in metaphor seek the sharply out effects which are the glory of the Imagists,--and frequently attain them. Lowell writes of the advantage which the early risers of literature have over us moderns in gathering words while the dew is still fresh on them. When a word which once had a single exact meaning has been worked to nervous prostration what can we do but invent either a new word or a new use of an old one? When the best metaphors have become an old story, what can we do but bring together in fresh...