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...over a hundred men assembled at the boat-house yesterday to see the 'Varsity off as they started on their last practice row before going to New London. As the crew passed the boat-house each time they were greeted with loud cheers from the crowd collected on the float...
...hoped that this year the crew would be able to use the '79 'Varsity shell for the race, but it is not large enough to float the crew, as they are by far the heaviest eight that have ever rowed here. Consequently a new boat had to be ordered, and it was used today for the first time. The means of revenue of the Boat Club...
...imminent danger to the boat and their companions, Messrs. Keith and Bunney, Horatius-like, leapt into the foaming flood and swam to the nearest land, which proved to be the Charles river embankment, some 50 feet distant. The remainder of the crew pulled the boat to the Union Club float, but there was no one there to assist them in landing, while the heavy sea running threatened to dash them against the float. Another chance was given for some one to distinguish himself, and though each wished to show himself worthy of the crew of '83, Mr. Sherwood settled...
Together would we float, dear...
...literature and art which denote a civilization that is well shaken down and settled. It is supposed that these elements only come to the surface when a civilization begins to rot from its own tedium, that they are the gases therefrom caught in balloons and allowed to float about in the air till they collapse of their own accord. But this is evidently untrue, or Boston must have jumped from the cradle into long trousers without stopping for bibs, pinafores and knee-breeches. The latter is the case, and Mrs. De Sorosis was Boston's wet-nurse...