Word: likeness
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...much hard work. Nowadays, however, things are very different, as one can easily judge who happens to watch the crew at table. The men are not stinted at all with regard to the amount they eat, and can have almost anything they want, provided it is not unwholesome, like pastry, candy...
About a quarter of a mile below the 'varsity are the freshman quarters. They are really very pleasantly situated in a little white farm house, which, like the 'varsity quarters, has a good view of the river. The owner of the house, Capt. Mahlthrop, is a jolly old soul, and makes everything very pleasant for the crew. The pictures which the genial captain has in his various rooms, are of an unusually uninteresting character, and it has become a custom of freshman crews upon taking possession, to turn them face inwards towards the walls. There are four sleeping rooms...
...appeared to-day in a New London paper, which is rather amusing. It has as a heading "Giants get into gear;" and among other things it speaks of Capt. Mumford as being a "veritable Samson," and of Burgess and Yocum as being the "big fellers" of the eight. Accounts like this are very common among the daily papers here, and are read with great pleasure by the men at the quarters...
...Yale News in a recent issue talks about the "unnecessary garrulity" of Harvard's coach at the first freshman game, and urges this in partial extenuation of the treatment '89 received at New Haven. We should like to ask our E. C's. unbiassed opinion on garrulous coaching as exhibited by the Yale nine on Saturday. We only had one coach, and Yale had two; but what is "garrulity" in Cambridge, may be thought necessary coaching in a different climate: how is it neighbor...
...should be written on separate cards, each the size of a postal card. The lists should not be written on paper slips, and must be written on one side of each of the cards used. Care must be taken to hand in both the duplicate lists, each being precisely like the other in all respects...