Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...that I noticed in making up my elective list, which looked like design and not necessity, and that was the position of History 7. This course is one of the most desirable in college, and for those who are particularly interested in history is an absolute necessity, for no man who wishes to be well informed in that subject can be without a knowledge of European history during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Large numbers of students took the course, not because it was "soft," for there are many easier courses offered us, but with a view to the profit...
...good deal of interest was manifested last year in the hitherto much neglected study of Elocution. The Faculty should hasten to supply the place of Professor Baxter by some one who will keep alive that interest, as the work in this department is too much for any one man to do alone. We would suggest that Sanders Theatre be used for a recitation-room in this subject during the year, as well as for the rehearsals of the competitors for the Boylston prizes. This would necessitate keeping it heated during the winter, but it certainly would be worth while...
...knowledge that one man had of mankind...
...victories that are to be won on land and river in one year. Cornell has the laurels of the Freshman race, and she had to work hard to get them. The men of '81 pulled a plucky and determined race, and showed themselves a more manly set of men than the unfavorable criticism of the college was, at one time, inclined to admit. The warnings that the Advocate urges upon the present Freshman class are wise and practical. It is useless to undertake to row a race when the amount of money that can be raised to support the crew...
...race there appeared in several newspapers a reported conversation that Captain Cook had with several members of the press. Besides laying claim to the honor of being the man who has done more for rowing in America than any one else, and besides declaring his ability to coach Morris, he informs the public, with singular modesty, that he is the man who gave Waters of Troy the model of an English eight-oared shell, and it is due to his magnanimity that Harvard is rowing at present in a shell made after that model...