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...years experience on the 'Varsity. He is a good man for the place, allows no shirking, and takes particular pains to aid each man individually. Bob Cooke has not yet put in an appearance, but he is expected during the early part of April, when he will look after both the freshman crew and the 'Varsity. The freshmen hope to come in ahead in the class races, and it is whispered they are by no means despondent of leaving the Harvard freshman crew in the rear, if they succeed in making arrangements for a race with them...
...would have both the time and the inclination to attend; the meetings would become of more importance, and the entries and competition would increase. This plan of holding the contests in the evening has been tried at Yale and has worked successfully. We hope that the Athletic Association will look into this and see if in this way the weekly contests cannot be made more advantageous...
...course his superior knowledge found flaws in the book. And he gave vent to his feelings by a series of loud snorts and chuckles, which, under ordinary circumstances, would have been exasperating, but at the time it was simply maddening. I cannot see what business he had to look into the book in the first place; in the second place he should have learnt by this time that mere politeness required gentlemen to control their merriment-when loss of control is out of place and ungentlemanly. I have heard so many complaints on this subject that, a sufferer myself...
...finally that, when they reached Cambridge, the driver had been obliged to roll them all out of the barge like barrels they were so stiff with the cold, in spite of these things-I say, the unanimous verdict is that everyone had a fine time, and everyone would look forward with eager anticipation to the day when the Pierian Sodality shall again play for the fair maids of Wellesley...
...abundant as water, and withal so necessary, we might have the pure article. The water furnished at Memorial is naturally a little turbid. But the animals which now infest it are conspicuous, even among the floating particles of lint which thicken it. If anyone will take the trouble to look in his glass in the morning he will see them skipping about in high glee. Better water than this can be found in any pond. If set on any other table than in Memorial Hall it would be thought an outrage. The only way to correct such evils seems...