Word: lasting
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Editors Magenta, - My room is 9 Thayer, not 19, as stated in last number of the Magenta. Please correct, as it's the occasion of much inconvenience, and greatly oblige
...hard-working student was much disturbed last Wednesday evening by the noise of the jubilant annexationists in Brighton. The glare of rockets and the discharge of artillery were incessant...
...draw up to their positions. Then came more delay in arrangement, and after much backing and changing they were held in line in the following order, beginning at the western bank: Amherst, Massachusetts Agricultural, Yale, Harvard, Columbia, Wesleyan, Williams, Dartmouth, Trinity, Bowdoin, and Cornell; the position of the last three almost sealing their fate from the start. It was no ordinary sight, these sixty-six young men, the pick of eleven colleges, presented as they sat there, bending forward, all eyes on the starter, as motionless as statues. The brown skins and developed muscles showed a latent power which...
...they entered upon the last half-mile and became clearly visible to the spectators at the finish, the scene was one of delirious excitement. No one who saw that magnificent finish can ever forget it. The sight was as grand from one bank as the other. Those on the western bank saw Yale spurt and draw ahead of Amherst and Wesleyan, who were nearly neck-and-neck, and the three boats cross the line in a clump, while Harvard was seen almost in a line with them, but under the eastern bank. Those on the eastern bank could dimly...
During the next day nearly all the visitors had gone, the city had again sunk into lethargy, and the last signs of the Regatta had passed away...