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Dates: during 1870-1879
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ARTICLE XII. - HONORARY MEMBERSHIP.It shall be in the power of the Executive Committee to elect gentlemen connected with the University to be honorary members of the Association, who shall be entitled to take part in all contests; but each shall be a member for one year only, at the end of which time he shall be re-eligible; and the number of such members shall never at one time exceed five...
...somewhat longer and, if possible, more brilliant will make a good conclusion. The intervening part, the body of the dissertation, should be carefully arranged, and have several marked divisions. Such divisions encourage the reader, for, without counting the remaining pages, he can see that he is drawing nearer the end; and they also are extremely handy when you wish to serve up an extract as a theme or forensic. Treat your subject with all possible skill, and remember that when it proves rather unmanageable, a neat allusion to the learning and taste of the reader is of great service...
...average undergraduate mind thirsts for novelty, and is attracted for the time by anything new, just as younger children are fascinated by some new toy. Class races and club races having now palled upon his appetite, might not an entire change of diet tempt his palate? And with this end in view would it not be possible to use eight-oared shells for the fall races? We believe that there are now some five or six such shells on the rests at the boat-house, which might be made available in such a race. There is room enough...
...many advantages over any other: it is less expensive to make; is more interesting for the spectators; is large enough for bicycle races; the back-stretch is just the length to run 100-yard dashes and hurdle races on, and should be made of extra width with this end in view. Stones should be sunk in the earth to mark the start and finish of the 100-yards; the 220-yards; 120-yards hurdles, with stones to mark the position of each hurdle, quarter-mile, etc. We would also suggest to the Executive Committee that this year they ring...
Everywhere was to be seen Cornellian and white artistically, not to say conspicuously, displayed over the persons of the gentlemen from Ithaca, who not only completely outnumbered, but also "outyelled," the few Harvard men collected together at one end of the grand stand...