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Great Amateur Regatta. The Watkins Regatta Association will, near the end of May, hold at Watkins Glen, N. Y., a grand regatta, open to all amateurs of America. In addition to the usual races, there will be three special trial-races for fours, pairs, and singles, over a straightaway course of one mile and five-sixteenths, the exact length of the regatta course at Henley, England. The winners of these three trials will, at the expense of the Regatta Committee, be sent to compete at Henley, and other regattas in England, and at the Paris International races...
...Hold on, Smith," said I, "this will never do. Have you put poetry in an editorial...
...though its faults are patent to all. The increasing interest in the study of history in this College has laid bare another defect in our Library. Of what works we have duplicate sets (Bancroft, for example), only one set is reserved, so that some man gets hold of the other and holds it till after examination. If we are informed rightly, there is but one copy of Luden's, one of Giesebrecht's History of Germany, one of Stith's Virginia, one of Brodhead's New York, one of Ewald's "Our Constitution," etc., etc., - books either too rare...
...popularity which the independent man professes to scorn is the esteem, the respect, and the friendship of manly men." The reason he assigns is deceptive. If he means that we look upon no popular men as manly he makes a groundless and false assertion ; if he means that we hold that a number of popular men are not manly, he is right. We hold to the common view that those popular men who, when occasion calls, express themselves against vicious talk or acts are manly, and that those whose popularity is due to a careful avoidance of expressing disapprobation...
...Perhaps you are right, after all," said he; "I agree with what you say, in theory at least, though I doubt if it will hold in practice. But then I may be taking my own circumstances and ideas on the subject as belonging to us all. I went to Harvard with the intention of doing fairly well, of getting what knowledge and experience I could conveniently in three or four years, and of finishing off my school education in a leisurely, gentlemanly way. I confess that my aim was not a high one, and therefore there is perhaps little wonder...