Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Holls proposes to publish a pamphlet giving a full account of the "College Oarsmen of 1875." The price of the pamphlet will be fifty cents; but to any man who will establish an agency at Harvard, one hundred or more copies will be furnished at half-price, provided that the book be ordered before the publication, and paid for, cash on delivery...
...very important changes since we spoke of them two weeks ago. The positions of the men are now announced as settled upon; but (much as we long to see the crew made up) we trust that this will not prove to be the fact. That Otis is the best man for stroke we have little doubt, but we question seriously the policy of placing Wetmore No. 2, and changing two of the strongest men in the boat over to the side they are not accustomed to row on. Bacon and Taylor may be able to put as much strength into...
...evidence offered showed clearly that our original color was certainly not Magenta; and the appearance and words of the man who caused all the trouble by buying, ten years ago, for the University crew the nearest shade he could get to crimson completely silenced the sceptics. This change, or rather restoration, of the color of the University suggests the question whether the paper which bears the name of the discarded hue will cling to, or renounce, that name. Before our next issue that question will probably have been decided, and the result of the decision will be announced. But, under...
...late years, and especially since the custom of a three-months summer vacation has existed, there has flourished in the conservatory of Harvard that gaudy, costly, and too-often-admired exotic, - the travelled man...
...pity in asking how you have managed to live through the vacation "on this side." Piccadilly oozes from every square inch of his person. He "strolls" into a shop with you; asks the price of something; says, when answered, "Sixteen dollars? ah! three pounds four shillings. Yes, old man, yes, that's cheap." He corrects you frequently as to "good form," assuring you that he is right beyond question, for your expression is unknown outside "the States...