Word: fors
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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To me it speaks; - for me the rose
Mr. North being then asked to give some explanations in regard to the form of the challenge which had been sent, stated that it was for an eight-oared three-mile race, time and place to be agreed upon hereafter. Cornell accepted the challenge on condition that the crews should...
Mr. Whiting then introduced Captain Bancroft, who declined the responsibility of influencing the class in either direction, thinking it much better that they should decide for themselves. He said that, in his opinion, the class could not honorably withdraw from a race after what had passed, but if they were...
AT a time when the lives of great men are held up for our imitation, and their characters are studied as containing the secret of success, it is well to draw a lesson, or two, from the failures of an unsuccessful man.
Such a one was Jeremiah Smith. He was born the 6th of April, 1841, in the little town of West Hampton, Vt. His father, a farmer, died soon after, leaving his mother, a woman of a keen, though uneducated mind, and his grandfather, a relic of Revolutionary days, as guardians...