Word: downs
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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BY a new arrangement of the Prescribed Philosophy, Logic will not be taught the first half-year, nor Metaphysics the second. The hours set down for these studies on the Tabular View will therefore be disregarded, and all Juniors and Elective Sophomores will present themselves at one of the following...
Columbia. - The victory which this despised crew obtained at Henley is now a matter of history. But when we think of the auspices under which they went to England, - the papers crying them down, outsiders considering their expedition the height of folly, and even their own friends and college mates...
I AM what is called a boating-man, that is, I saunter down to the club-house every afternoon, select a shell, and try to select an oar - oarful task - from the buttonless, broken-bladed specimens now on exhibition; then I venture out for an hour's pull, returning in...
"In conclusion, gentlemen, I cannot sit down without expressing to you my warmest admiration of the scene at which I was permitted to assist this morning. The dignity, the solemnity of that performance has made a most profound impression upon my mind. And above all, when I consider the amount...
"Why, if I wanted to, I might have kept secret a good many things I learned in England. They tried down at Cambridge to build an eight at Blakie's shop, but Blakie was not equal to the job, and his boat cracked from stem to stern while the crew...