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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...college boating, what is the college regatta of the year if it is not at New London, between the two university crews of Harvard and Yale? And why is this paramount to the intercollegiate regatta rowed on Lake George or Saratoga? Because the element of chance, in winning, is less. That is one reason; and another is, that the interest in the contest is more concentrated, being centred on only two crews...
...classes are now all hard at work in the middle of the long term, which has no break till July, save a few days at Easter. The advantages offered to the students in the way of lectures are exceedingly attractive, and are being enjoyed to a greater or less extent by all. The courses are: Mechanics, in Sheffield Hall, a series of fourteen lectures upon subjects of a popular nature; a course under the auspices of the Phi Beta Kappa Society, given on Wednesday evenings from time to time throughout the year; the Dwight Hall lectures on Monday evenings...
...factions in the college. It would not even reduce the friction between them. The club would be the scene of political intrigues, which would be without a parallel outside of those notorious faction fights, which have done so much "to make Yale infamous." At the present time, there is less hostile feeling between different societies at Harvard, considering its size, than at any other college in America! Such a club as the one proposed would not tend to promote sociability among the students, because it would not constitute a common bond of sympathy or interest. Men of different tastes...
...weight match properly conducted is merely a display of dexterity and grace, attributes which our fair friends are especially quick to admire, and with justice as well. If any lady, however, is so weak as to be frightened or affected in any way by a contest which involves much less danger and physical pain than very many of those less conspicuous matches which she looks upon unmoved, then she is quite at liberty to stay away. We believe that the feather-weight sparring gives a zest to the second meeting which our lady friends enjoy as much...
...understand and describe the emotions of a woman - that the French revolution "overthrew in one vast ruin Church, State and literature," in which latter word seems to be included not only Montesquieu, Voltaire and J. J. Rousseau, who, by the way, led the revolution, but also the German writers, Lessing. Schiller, Goethe. The latter, I may add, like the later English writers, seems to have drawn much inspiration from that same overthrow - after saying all this, proceeds to evolve Victor Hugo and Theophile Gautier from the paltry revolution of 1830, and from these all the other French writers from Zola...