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Dates: during 1870-1879
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RECENT letters from graduates indicate that the interest in our boating matters, manifested by them at the time of our withdrawal from the Association, has in no wise declined, and is seeking to so express itself as to best improve our chances of success. A few words as to our present condition, and the quarter in which we most need outside help, may serve to direct this interest where it will do the most good...
...propose that Harvard and Yale Colleges lay aside all their ordinary forms of emulation at baseball, foot-ball, athletic games, and boating, and concentrate all their rivalry on a desperate race to the North Pole. We use race in a broad sense, to express an emulous strife towards a distant goal which it may take years to reach, but the attainment of which will bring great glory, after a struggle in which the contestants will have the world for spectators...
...such an offence I once received a public admonition," remarked my visitor in a casual way. I ventured to express my surprise...
...HAVE read with great pleasure the article by Mr. Crowninshield, and your remarks thereon, in the last issue of the Crimson, and, encouraged by the desire you express to hear from graduates concerning boating matters, I send you what follows...
...will not commit myself so far as to say that I am a Junior), - with their altered demeanor, I say, in regard to those little soirees in U. E. R. compared with the nervous dread with which they anticipated their first examinations within these sacred walls. Now they merely express astonishment at the old-fashioned notions of a professor, who, wishing to know how far his disciples have profited by his instructions, takes the high-school way of making them commit to paper the knowledge which they have received from him during the past three months. But on the whole...