Word: letters
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...same time it undoubtedly exists, and exercises an influence which is none the less for being unseen. And the more you have of it, the better for you it will be. I find that I am becoming horribly snobbish, so I shall hasten to close my letter. Always behave like a gentleman. If you want to do an impudent thing, do it in such a way that nobody will know that it is impudent till he stops to think; and if you can't do it in that...
...publish to-day another letter from a graduate upon the subject of our rowing interests. This letter is, in a measure, a supplement to the one we published in our last number. The position of the writers of these letters, the strong ground they take, and the interest they show in our boating welfare demand, we think, some public recognition from those who are to select and train our crew, and who will shape our boating policy for the next summer. The captain of the crew does not, we believe, agree with the views expressed by our two correspondents...
...used to do a good deal of that sort of thing, and I was never sorry for it. In case you should like to follow in my footsteps, I will give you one or two examples, by way of ending my letter. And as special examples are always more amusing, both to read and to write, than generalities, however glittering, I will stick to the theatre and to burlesque...
...Occidental intellect of Smith. Between the acts you meet Jones, who says that he comes in every night, and then hurries off in a mysterious way. Little Thompson, who thinks that Jones is the English for God, comes up in a minute, and tells you how Jones wrote a letter to the little priestess in green, Miss Rosalie Montague; and how Miss Rosalie answered the letter, and dined with Jones the next evening; and how Jones has sent her a beautiful bracelet; and how he (Thompson) lent Jones the money to buy the bracelet with; and so on, ad infinitum...
...letter we print from an old oarsman should receive much attention from our boating men We cannot agree with our correspondent in everything he says, but the crew will find many valuable hints in the letter. His remarks on rowing-weights, we must say, with all due respect, are out of date. The rowing-weight used in his time was very different from the one in use now. A thousand strokes a day at the hydraulic machines used by our crew necessarily brings out the pluck and endurance of the candidates for the boat. Pulling at an iron weight attached...