Word: may
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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SUBSCRIPTIONS for Vol. XIII. of the Crimson may be paid now at the University Bookstore...
This Fable teaches not only that we may make a cold trip-slip for a six cent Fare, but also that Prudence as well as Pride has its Fall...
...letter asking your attention and answer as early as you will allow. You will recollect that the coming season brings the tenth anniversary of Oxford's victory over Harvard in a race from Putney to Mortlake. To-day at Cambridge there is a strong desire that a race may be rowed the next summer to again try the good rowing of the two universities. In '69 the trial was hardly a satisfactory one, being out of course in that but four-oared boats represented the two clubs. The wish now is to enter an eight-oar with coxswain against your...
...anything like a representative eight to row in August are very great, as I am sure you would feel if you were in my position. The Oxford summer term ends early in June, and the men by that time, having perhaps rowed in College Eights up here in the May Races, and again perhaps at Henley, also in College Boats, and not together for the University, are generally very stale, and would require much persuasion to begin again and row for another two months, being an exact repetition of what they had done before while preparing for the Inter-'Varsity...
...This diminution may have been caused by the dropping, in 1878, of the September preliminary examination, or by the new requisition of the teacher's certificate that the candidate is prepared in the subjects he presents; or it may be that the hardness of the times is diminishing the number of boys who are preparing for the college...