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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...were writing to any College fellow I would laugh at him for asking such an absurd question, and tell him that he ought to know that I never studied; that to study was bad form; and as for going to recitations, why, I never go. But as this letter is to you, and is withal a frank confession, I will acknowledge studying a little now and then when I think no one will see me; for to be found grinding is to be held up for ridicule to all the "best men" of the College. No one objects to your...
...there is something infinitely touching in the idea of an entirely receptive existence, and such is that of the letter-box. In Phaedrus's fable every one is reported as carrying two wallets, - one at his back, filled with his own faults, the other in front, loaded with the faults of others. The letter-box - or, if you please, the lamp-post - wears its wallet but in front. Faults of its own it has none; but when does it fail to bear the burden of others' mistakes? And do not tell me it is but a senseless object. No, take...
...author of the letter to the Advocate does not answer his question in objection No. 2, - "Did '83 gain more renown by winning the class race than by their victory over Columbia?" If an '83 man were to answer, he might say, "No, we did not;" but the spectators of any actions are the ones to judge in which most renown was gained, and the general opinion among upper class men is that '83 gained most by winning the class races. If the question were to be asked of men outside of Harvard, they would agree with '83, as they...
...writer of the letter to the Advocate makes a miscalculation of three weeks and a half in the exact time during which a training table need be kept for the Freshman race, as it was seven weeks and a half from the class races to the Columbia race. It is not impossible, too, that a training table might be dispensed with for a part of the time before the class races if there were to be no outside race; but, even if it were not, the expense beyond the class race for keeping up the crew would be $300 while...
...last question in the letter there may be said of '80 what has already been said of '82 '80 furnished fewer men because she did not happen to have the material of the other classes named, although four 'Varsity men to a class is not a bad average. To conclude, the Crimson does not think that as yet there is sufficient reason to abandon the ground which has been already taken...