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...aside personal prejudice and to support the crew to the best of his ability. Many men are probably not satisfied that Harvard has made due reparation in sending a challenge without an accompanying apology. They therefore deem it unworthy of our dignity to row the Cambridge crew, and are loath to countenance the race by their support. For the benefit of these we shall attempt to explain matters. Columbia holds one view of the late difficulty, Harvard another. We hold that the Harvard crew and the boat club, by its subsequent action, were entirely in the wrong, and that...
...liberal use of mournful leads for underscoring, the Yale News attempts to make as much capital as possible out of the remarkable and irresponsible article on Harvard boating in last Sunday's Boston Herald. With unusual temperance of expression, the News is "loath to believe that an institution like Harvard can countenance such expressions, thus shamelessly made." Neither does the HERALD believe that Harvard can countenance such statements, and it feels assured that Harvard will live up to the letter and spirit of all its agreements with Yale...
...meet us. We hope, at least, that Yale will have sufficient enterprise to send some representatives to Mott Haven; and sometime in the future, when she has gained a little more confidence, we shall hope to be able to arrange the annual meetings which she is at present so loath to undertake...
Which to repeat I'm loath...
...thoughts took another turn, and I began to wonder why it was that I was able to think at all. Or was it that this small power of speculation still clung to the head, even when severed from the trunk; that the ghosts, as it were, of former senses, loath to depart, still hovered about me? And it diverted me that the faculty for punning should of all be the most tenacious. I felt a new ambition, - to retain my faculties as long as possible. I determined that by mere force of will I would prevent them from leaving...