Word: exonian
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Exeter is evidently willing to do all it can to send good oarsmen to Harvard, and a recent article in the Exonian suggests a system which deserves notice. The writer says: "The thing for our boating men to do, if they wish to have the Harvard Boat Club co-operate with them, is to learn the Harvard stroke. The question naturally arises, How are we to learn this stroke? It is barely possible, that by paying his expenses, we might prevail upon some member of the 'Varsity Boat Club, (one who has either some love...
...Where is the Harvard Glee Club?" cries the Exonian plaintively...
...They must be training the boating men at Exeter down to a fine point," says the Exonian; "the animated skeletons of the middle class will soon begin to train for the crew. They will be kept on a bread and water diet, and what is left of them at the end of the year will be sent to Dartmouth...
Here is the way the appearance of things at Harvard strikes a preparatory student. A writer on the Exonian has been peering around and thus records his impressions: "Between the hours of four and five P. M., Hemenway presents an animated appearance. In the main hall every pully, every rope has its somebody tugging and pulling with might and main. Neither has the Harvidian, whom a few moments ago we saw on the streets the ideal Adonis, that dignified appearance as he scampers about in his semi-nude, airy costume. Down in the basement the dull thud of falling tenpins...
...last number of the Exonian tells us of the decline of Exeter boating interests for want of proper boats, and appeals to Harvard to supply the deficiency, saying that as a majority of Exeter men go to Harvard, we would eventually get most of the advantage derived from their having adequate boating facilities. With regard to boating, no other preparatory school, with the exception of St. Paul's, has such good natural opportunities as Exeter, and yet, as all graduates of Exeter know, these opportunities have been, and are now, greatly diminished through lack of boats. Exeter men have always...