Word: lastly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...WONDER whether I am the only reader of the Crimson who has fallen easy prey to the specious eloquence of old Izaak Walton, that arch-humbug who "babbles of green fields" in such a naive and charming way. Last spring I picked up "The Complete Angler," and at once devoting to Hades the august historians and orators of antiquity, I wanted to be a fisher of trout, I longed for brooks to conquer, I wished to commune with Nature. I have communed now, and some of the greenness has departed from those fields and from...
...custom of making the rank list for the Senior year a part of the Commencement programme was given up last year. This change is on every account to be regretted. It makes many Seniors who do not aspire to a high general average careless about their success in any particular course. Still worse, it leaves all faithful work in any particular course unrewarded; and the new system of Honorable Mention will not remedy this evil in most cases, - in such courses, for instance, as are not preceded by enough hours in the same branch to make up the required eight...
...will be felt in no way more seriously than in our athletics. A class which can furnish not only the backbone of the 'Varsity, but the best class-crew besides; which has seven members on the foot-ball team; and whose representatives on the Nine are the last that can be said to have profited by the good training of former years, - not to mention the champion single-sculler and several prominent athletes, - this class cannot depart without leaving a large vacancy behind it. Now, however, while the College is still fresh with the memory of these achievements...
...excellent one. Many of its members, too, who have not taken the highest stand in their studies, have shown such ability that they are pretty sure to make their mark in the world. '79 has formed so large a part of the life of the College during the last four years, that her graduation leaves a large gap to be filled. The influence of the class has been a good one. Of course, every class has its various elements, but nevertheless there is a certain tone about every class, as a whole, and the tone of '79 has been...
...that the chances of Harvard winning the approaching race are not very good. We are happy, however, to be able to state that the facts in the case do not warrant such a conclusion. Yale, to be sure, has a much better crew in some respects than that of last year. The men are heavier, taller, and row in better form; but they are all new men except three, - a fact greatly in our favor, and one that superficial writers in making their estimate too often overlook. Harvard, on the other hand, has but one new man (that...