Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...frequenters of the boat-house, is to be immediately refitted for service and once more launched. It will be remembered that this is the boat in which the present vice-president of our Boat Club, with the assistance of Mr. Faulkner, last year heroically rescued from drowning a man whose shell had capsized. The craft will be moored at the float, for the general convenience of the H. U. B. C., and under the careful and experienced attention of the vice-president, it will hereafter be regularly used as a life-boat. This assurance of means of rescue all ready...
STATISTICS of the Senior class show that at graduation the oldest man will be 31 years 2 months; the youngest, 18 years 7 months; the average age, 22 years 7 1/2 months. 15 men will be over 25; 4 under...
Princeton called on their substitutes three times; no Harvard man was disabled, though Holmes was slightly hurt in the first part of the game. The match was closely contested, but there were too many bad plays on either side to call it a fine game. The best long kicks were without doubt made by Princeton, but they failed in always having a man on the spot to follow up the advantage; in which latter respect Harvard was "right there." On the Harvard team Seamans's playing was splendid; Blanchard was rugged, and always on hand; Cushing, '79, was omnipresent, turning...
...that they have power, not to make laws, but only to carry out the wishes of the Association; and a question so important as this ought to have been decided by ballot. The assertion that the majority were not competent to vote, as some allege, is rank nonsense: every man's opinion is sound when the stomach is concerned. We say, then, that the compromise in itself is a satisfactory one; but that the action of the Directors, in not consulting the wishes of the body they are supposed to represent, is establishing a dangerous and illegal precedent...
...received with satisfaction by those students - and there are many of them - who feel that as far as they themselves are concerned the time heretofore devoted to these subjects has been too short. Opportunity is now offered to gain that practice in writing which is essential to almost every man who would communicate to others his ideas and the results of his study. The aim of the course is to afford individual help and encouragement, and the books used and the subjects given out will be selected with this object in view. Judging from the subjects which the instructor...