Word: home
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...fair nymph to a heavenly home...
...argued that the alleged need of rest to the "hard-working undergraduate" is overestimated, and that even if true of some, they are a small minority of the whole number. That the advantages of a vacation would not benefit the large number who spend their Saturdays and Sundays at home, nor those who live at a great distance. To these latter it would even be an expense and an inconvenience. The time of year proposed is that characterized by east winds, mud, and all the inclemencies of weather, and the time thus taken would have to be deducted from...
...regret that my remarks about the present Senior Class should have been apparently misinterpreted. I thought of it merely as a small part of the educated young men of the country, and hoped, by mentioning it in particular, to strike nearer home...
...discussion in the Advocate, - that it is but fair to give men an opportunity of seeing the crew which represents them row a race without obliging them to travel hundreds of miles for the purpose, and that the members of the crew would themselves enjoy rowing a race near home, and under such favorable auspices...
...world." The article, as the writer says, was written under the impressions made while belated at Springfield, and suffering from the bad digestion of a Massasoit pot-pourri meal. This accounts for the gloomy view taken; but as regards the expressed opinion that races would be better rowed at home, and "subject to the inspection and judgment of teachers and guardians of the young men," we can only suggest the impracticability of our President being the umpire in a boat-race, or our Professors a police force to prevent pool-selling on the banks. No one denies that a regatta...