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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...students of Harvard by the fact of the close connection which has existed between the academy and this college. Of late years the number of boys prepared for Harvard at Andover has somewhat fallen off, but the tide has turned, and now an increasing number in every class find their way to this college...
...undertook to pay the expenses of advertising for the Brown Nine, when it came to the point they positively refused to do so; that they made the men pay for their own dinner; invited them to a supper consisting of a keg of beer, and left them to find their own way to the railroad station at night. In addition to all this, the Nine were robbed by sneak-thieves; so that, altogether, it is not remarkable that they feel aggrieved...
...their stewards to decide what an amateur really is. It would seem that some body of men might take the matter in hand, and give a decisive answer to this very puzzling conundrum. When an American committee announce that "this regatta is open only to amateurs," we always find in the next paragraph, "we define an amateur to be," etc., etc. Nothing could be fairer or plainer than this, and unless Henley really fear us it would be well for her to stop this dodging business, and publish her definition. The Columbia crew sail for England...
BICYCLES.A Correction. - We made a statement last week concerning American-made bicycles, which we find on inquiry we were not warranted in making. It seems that one of these machines, on a journey to Lynn, quietly dropped to pieces in the middle of the road. We need not say that no such catastrophe need be feared from the excellent vehicles of which Messrs. Cunningham, Heath, & Co. are the agents...
...only were avoided which were wholly unprofitable; in the first, the order to omit was always the signal for laughter and "wooding up"; in the second, there was never the least disorder of any kind when a slightly improper passage was read. I leave it to the instructors to find the interpretation, and will only say that, if they continue to treat us as school-boys, - or, rather, as school girls, - they must not be surprised at occasional boyish behavior. Prudery should be banished from the place to which it is least suited, - a university...