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...getting on the water later than most freshman crews, but as they were practically thrown out of the class races before the start by the breaking of their rudder, they had no chance to show what they could or could not do. By the end of June they had got into very good form, and beat the Columbia freshmen by nearly a minute. This year there are at present four men from '88 trying for the University, crew, Butler, Bradlee, and Porter, of last year's freshman crew, and Wood, who did not try for the last year. Several...
President Cleveland never attended a college of any kind. The acting vice-president, John Sherman, is a graduate of the common schools of Ohio. The secretary of State, Thomas F. Bayard, never got farther than a Delaware rural academy. The speaker of the House of Representatives, John G. Carlisle, is a self educated...
...seems to think the one is not accomplished by association with the help usually employed around hotels or the other by sleeping in laundries or under bowling alleys. As to the financial success of the scheme he is equally skeptical, his experience seeming to have been that the cooks got the greater part of his perquisites or wages, emphasizing their demands, when he was disposed to be less generous than they wished, by furnishing such poor food at the table presided over by him that the guests rose in rebellion. He was forbidden to talk to any of the guests...
...outbreak of the rebellion a guard for the Arsenal was organized, composed of Harvard students. They marched to the enlivening music of fife and drum, drilled, and stood guard until the matter got to be looked upon as an opportunity for having a good time rather than as a serious and important duty, when their further services were declared to be unnecessary. Later on many regular troops were equipped here with arms and ammunition, and in 1864, at the time when the "Merrimac" was creating such havoc in the neighborhood of Norfolk, Governor Andrew had an addition...
...opponents of the consolidation are, as has been said, the principal undergraduates. Their objections seem to be sound from an undergraduate point of view. In the first place, there is doubt if a man of sufficient ability could be got to fill successfully the office of chief treasurer: and where ability was found, partiality to certain sports might make him worthless for the position. Again, supposing the man obtainable, the existence of a chief responsible in a lump for all expenditure would remove all feeling of individual responsibility from the treasurers of the different organizations, and extravagance would...