Word: maying
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...have had a representative color much longer than since 1859; and as the sanguinary magenta has come into existence since that date, it is reasonable to suppose that our former color was, what is now often attributed to us, crimson. On the respective merits of crimson and magenta we may not enlarge now; for how could our paper, named to represent our distinctive outward manifestation, designate itself by the uneuphonious name of "The Crimson"! It would be infinitely worse than "The Dark Blue." So, as the point is settled that the color is to be Magenta, let us have none...
...may have a salutary effect on our own Freshmen, to learn that the Freshman six at Amherst are already selected and hard at work in the gymnasium. It is this taking of time by the forelock that puts a crew at the head of the river...
...London, and thinks that extortion would be the chief feature of a Regatta at Saratoga. It loses its temper in an attempt to "rough" the Magenta for venturing to say that in its last number it indulged "a wee bit in braggadocio," and makes one remark which may have been funny when it first appeared in Yale papers, though we have forgotten, and another which we do not repeat, because we are unwilling to believe that more than one man at Yale could make...
...those who know anything about this class, and who have watched their crew, it is quite evident that there is no one among them fitted by knowledge and experience to train a crew during the winter and coach them in the Gymnasium; and I think I may venture to say that to most of those men the following seems the best plan that can be followed: There are several fellows, who have been here a year or more and who have pulled during that time, who it is thought would be willing, if asked by the class, to choose...
However this may be, certain it is that a grand movement was inaugurated in favor of education, - a movement, however, which had not the time to produce results before Bonaparte was on the spot. He wished to crush the Revolution, which had scarcely yet laid out its work, and he arrived just in time to claim his heritage. Seizing upon the ideas then working in the revolutionary furnace, he formed them to his own liking, assimilated them to his own, and finally ran them into his own mould, - a mould of iron, which it has hitherto been found impossible...