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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...seldom row any distance on time. This is generally left for the afternoon. While they are out, the launch usually returns from New London, bringing a supply of provisions, etc., and also the morning's papers and letters for the crew; so that when the crew come back, they find enough to engage their attention until two o'clock, when dinner is served. The table is a long one, large enough for fifteen or sixteen people. Plain china crockery and glassware are used, all the service of the table, in fact, showing the greatest economy and simplicity. There...
...painted a deep crimson, - and on the flag-staff, which is raised above the roof, floats a large flag, which has seen service for many years. On the ground floor is a large and airy dining room, and a kitchen, well supplied with its necessary accessories. Up stairs we find the sleeping rooms for the crew. Most of the time when the men are not out rowing, they spend in lounging about on the piazza, reading or talking. Just beside the quarters is a large open field, where the crew occasionally have a little game of ball, but from...
...entirely forgotten their existence, simply because there is no passage way to the boat house from the billiard-room in Leavitt & Peirce's. We trust that we shall hear no more of this disgraceful indifference on the part of eighty-nine, but that a few men will find time to go to the boat-house every afternoon during the last few days of their stay here...
Such action by an American college is, at least, phenominal! How interesting it would be to go into a recitation room in that far-famed institution and find college students competing with ten year-old boys in our Latin School on mensa, amo, or the like. - Beacon...
Writers of essays in English 8 will find their manuscripts on the table in Sever 2. Books for the examination not yet handed in, may be left on the table in Sever...