Word: maying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Then Fredericus addressed unwinged words to Mary Ann: "O thou goddess, what age has brought thee forth? while shadows move round the convex mountains, while heaven feeds the stars, your name and praise I shall sing to whatever clime I may be called, - but I must leave you now, as the confounded swell is ordering up my supper...
...rooms in the Yard make it difficult to let all of them, and so good rooms must be offered to those who enter next year, or else they will room outside. Viewed in this light, there is no ground for surprise at the retention of rooms, however much there may be for dissatisfaction...
...earnestly hope that Harvard may be represented in the American Henley. It seems most practicable to enter our Crew for the eight-oared race, in which they would probably meet Princeton and Columbia. This would not interfere with our Yale race, nor would it demand much extra work on the part of the Crew. Less practicable, but still more desirable, would be the entry of a four-oar, as only with a four-oar can we meet Cornell. There are several difficulties in the way of this course which do not present themselves in the case of an eight-oared...
...Berkeleyan for March contains an article on Robert Burns, which is open to the foregoing criticism, and the final paragraph shows the danger of continuing in speaking or writing after an effort has reached a natural conclusion, although it may be an error incident to inexperience; and in this case the omission of that paragraph would have saved the explicit declaration that "Burns was a man of talent and many excellences," in opposition to the general opinion that he was one of the greatest of the poetic geniuses of the eighteenth century...
ATHLETICS.The track on Jarvis Field is at the present writing completed, all but the rolling, which will take some time longer. It has been an exceedingly costly piece of work, and we hope that any assessment which may possibly be made will be paid up promptly and cheerfully. Now that the work is complete, it will not need renewing for a series of years, and we may also congratulate ourselves on having the only cinder path this side of Mott Haven, New York. The track has been carefully resurveyed, 18 inches removed from the inside all round...