Word: forms
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...horribly hard, I know, to learn how to manage your funds in the beginning. And I think that it is best to start off with a little mild extravagance in the form of subscriptions to the various athletic schemes which happen to be in favor. Pay your subscriptions at once, and everybody will know it. In future years, if you are called upon for anything of the sort, you are at liberty to reply that you have learned wisdom by experience, - which you have duly paid for. But in the beginning it pays to subscribe; you are at once reported...
...against the anchoring rope, and before it could get clear, the leading boat was several lengths ahead. This seemed to dishearten the '79 oarsmen, and they withdrew, leaving the other boat to row over the last half of the course alone. The winners of this race pulled in good form, and succeeded in getting their boat through the water at a good rate...
...first half of the Senior class will hand in a Forensic Tuesday, October 17, on the subject, "Does the mind ever sleep?" The second half of the class will write on the question, "Are men accountable in any form or way for sins of ignorance?" and will hand in their Forensics on October...
...other colleges the interest in boating seems constantly increasing, and manifests itself in the most substantial form by offering an abundance of large, strong men as candidates for seats in the University boat. A place on the crew is an honor emulously sought for, and relinquished only with a struggle. At Yale, Captain Cook had constantly at his elbow a force of strong, trained men, waiting and working for a chance. Year after year, through success and defeat, the same men stuck by him; and no Harvard man will deny that they were well rewarded, last June, for their faithfulness...
...crew's drawbacks, however, are not confined to the desertion of the old members. There is great difficulty in finding suitable material to pick from. The large, strong, temperate men in college, who must form the backbone of a successful crew, refuse, almost to a man, to row. They invent countless trivial excuses lest they be disturbed from their peaceful somnolence and made useful to themselves and to Harvard. There does not seem to be a spark of enthusiasm where it can do any real good. Not a single volunteer worthy of present consideration has presented himself...