Word: maying
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Saturday than to have to go about begging men to enter. If we, the largest college in America, are not ready for athletics, I think that they had better be given up for the present. It is absurd to suppose that a few men, no matter how efficient they may be, can bolster up athletics if there is not interest enough to make more than nineteen men enter. Do the men want more costly prizes? If they do, there must be an annual assessment. Do they want other events? If they do, and will kindly write word to that effect...
...regard for "championships" or "representative" college crews, to try if either of the English colleges can do in 1879 what they succeeded in doing in 1869. We have, and have had for two years, the best crew that ever sat in a Harvard boat; and we think that they may possibly be able to defeat the Oxford and Cambridge crews. Anyhow, we propose to make the trial, without reference to Cornell, Columbia, or any one else, and if these colleges don't like it they must (as the boys say) "lump it." Our annual race with Yale will of course...
...then to lunch at Parker's. The cars between two and four are frequented by the men who have to go in at this hour in order to get back to Memorial at 5.29; after four, however, you need have no fear of meeting such inferior mortals, but may look forward with pleasure to meeting Bummer, '81, who goes in at this hour to walk on Washington Street, after which dissipation he dines at Young's, and then goes to the Boylston...
...come out before ten. Grinder takes the half-past-eight car every morning; he lives at his home in East Chelsea, and has a nine-o'clock recitation - which he never cuts - every day in the week, as he takes twenty-eight hours of electives this year. An exception may be made of Monday morning, when Mr Beck, of Beacon Street, refreshed by his devotions at Trinity, takes the nine-o'clock car, to the great delight of his parents, - and then plays tennis...
...more useful hints may be added. Never carry a bundle, however small, for it looks as if you were trying to diminish your bill at Sawin's; never give your seat to any lady, for it's none of your business to see that other people are comfortable; and be as late as possible in getting your ticket out, as it shows consideration for the tired conductor to have it all ready for him; and, by the way, never speak to any classmate unless he rooms in Beck or Little's, otherwise you may be taken for a scrub...