Word: let
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...tide; and as, after shooting the bridge, the stroke quickened and the boat came swiftly towards the float, a voice at my elbow said, with a strong Scotch accent, "The lads is pulling a bit hard to-night," and the bluff old boat-builder smiled approval. "Let her run!" comes sharp and clear from the boat, the machine-like action stops, the boat glides up to the float, out come the oars, and eight hearty-looking fellows after them, - fellows full of life and spirits, health and strength, who have taken an hour from their studies because they enjoy...
...stairs to the dressing-rooms. In a few minutes they appeared in their rowing-clothes, and took their places beside a ponderous craft, called the "Barge," which, with its iron keel, outriggers, and inside fixtures, looked more like a Rebel war-ram than a practical rowing-boat. "Ready! Let her go!" and out they march, carrying the heavy boat between them as easily as though it were made of paper. At the word the boat is put in the water, the crew take their oars and get in, while the diminutive coxswain, looking still smaller in contrast with...
Assuming that such an event would be distasteful to every academic student, the question which now presents itself is, How can we make Class Day successful? The obvious answer is, By enlisting the interest of every portion of the class. Let the exercises be of such a character, and let those exercises be conducted in such a manner, as to give each section of the class some sense of proprietorship. Let no part of the class feel that they are acting the part of mere spectators. In this way, and in this way only, can Class Day be made successful...
...Let every one who is interested in a successful Class Day remember that class interest is the thing to be sought for, and that any victory that shall produce class apathy will bring at best but empty honors...
...Weld, much less on Beck; but rather we must envy their intensely enlightened and cultivated condition, which raises them above ignoble struggles in a club boat to the glorious realms of infinite "loaf." The other clubs are fast approaching this delicious state. Our races must be sacrificed, but let us comfort ourselves: the sacrifice is to the noble cause of civilization...