Word: manned
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...their officers, and are not allowed to use any boat before payment; the yearly fee will possibly be lowered still further, after the boats are entirely paid for, only enough money being required each year to pay running expenses. These are rent, taxes, and insurance on the house, a man's attendance, and repairs of the boats. Further a sinking fund is desirable, with which to buy new boats and oars...
...around the river watching the crews, and using the six and four oars when the crews are not using them. For those who wish to train the attractions are greatly increased, the prizes are to be quite valuable, worth possibly between eight or ten dollars apiece, one for each man of the first winning crew. There is a likelihood of our spring races occurring in conjunction with those of the Union Boat Club; having one or more races in common, and others distinct. If, as it has been suggested, we invite the Union Boat Club to race with...
...stand well in his class, is the desire of every good student, and everything should be done by the College authorities to give him legitimate assistance. But does the present system of examinations give the student a fair chance? I think not, for the following reasons. I defy any man, - always leaving out the exceptional genius who is sui generis and therefore outside of all logical argument, - be he ever so faithful a student, to go into an examination and do himself justice or fairly test his technical knowledge of a subject, without a careful review of the matter...
From the reports of these lectures one may easily see that the lecturer is very clever and very earnest, - qualities which should secure a crowded audience, - but we should hardly expect a reader of Richter and Schopenhauer to dub a man "a genius" on one hearing...
Being, therefore, much puzzled by the constant repetition of this word, I have taken some pains to discover what the average Harvard man thinks a university is, and I find his idea of it to be pretty much as follows: Strictly voluntary attendance at all college exercises is the most prominent feature. The morning is spent in sleep and in breakfasting luxuriously in one's room, after which the real business of the day begins. This is either rowing on the river, or a long excursion into the country with a tandem, returning in time for dinner, which, dressed...