Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...till April. The reason is, that men get "rowed out" and utterly "stale" if they are kept at it without intermission, and a three or four months' absolute rest from work at the oar is found most beneficial in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred. Any man, however poor an oar, has the right to ask his (college) captain to send in his name to the Secretary of the 'Varsity; they are then tubbed once or twice by members of the 'Varsity, the hopelessly bad ones weeded out, and about three Eights taken down the river every...
...obituary notices in another column suggest these few remarks. The departure of those so lately associated with us cannot fail to add a new seriousness to the thoughts and life of every thinking man...
...question of adopting a system of late dinners seems destined to thorough discussion, and it certainly merits debate, for such a change would involve an alteration in the daily regime of every man in College. A rough sketch of the arguments thus far brought forward would give, for late dinners, the consideration of health; of convenience to the crews, etc., in gaining the time from 2 to 4; and the argument that a man can do his three hours' work in the evening better, if he has already had an hour's exercise, than if he puts that hour...
...character of nearly every young man who, dying at an early age, gives promise of future excellence, there is an element of imperfection or of extravagance, - something to hide or to excuse. Mr. Eliot's character was wonderfully complete; his life was remarkable for its consistency and harmony. Remembering now what that life was, - that its course was straight, that it was not affected by caprice or by sin, - we feel how out of place any attempt to describe it here or to deepen its influence would be. We can only pay it the simple tribute of our affection...
...noticed a cow leisurely chewing, chewing, with his eyes half shut, and - " Young Lady Students. "He-he-he." Harvard appreciates the sentiments of good-will and esteem expressed by this representative of her young sister of the Occident. As long as education points out his best interests to enlightened man, so long will the bond which unites California to Massachusetts remain unbroken...