Word: men
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...seem natural enough to those who do not know that an informal letter was written some time since to the Cornell boating authorities by the Secretary of the Harvard University Boat Club, stating that circumstances prevented his sending the formal acceptance at that time, but assuring the Cornell men that the challenge would doubtless be accepted very shortly. The members of this University may naturally wish to know what reasons have prevented the Executive Committee of the Boat Club from accepting Cornell's challenge. We had hoped to publish an official letter explaining the matter in full, but unfortunately...
...obliged to study the works of masters through the medium of photographs. No conception of color and only an imperfect conception of form can be derived by this means. Mr. Moore has fully appreciated this fact, and with the purpose of educating and training the taste of the men in college who are interested in art, he has copied, with a faithfulness which has won Mr. Ruskin's praise, the paintings, or characteristic portions of the paintings, of some of the greatest Italian masters. In these copies we are able to discover the spirit and the treatment peculiar to these...
...something, but are prevented from taking any of the special elective courses offered in them from lack of time. It seems to us that much would be done for those who are too much inclined to run in special ruts by giving courses of lectures to be delivered by men who are thoroughly competent to speak upon their special subjects...
...have received, too late for publication, a letter from a gentleman in '82 who complains of the hasty selection of twelve men to train for the Freshman crew. He suggests, as all would be applicants cannot row on the hydraulic machines, that they be set to work on the weights in the Gymnasium, and the selection be made after the real merits of the men are known. We are not familiar with all the facts in the case, but we do not believe any applicant will be prevented from trying for the crew...
...grief, that no one who wishes to see a friend ever ascends to his room if the business can be transacted by shouting to him from below. When he does pluck up courage enough to climb the stairs, what a noise he makes on the way! Even the quiet men above me, who belong to the very small class that neither whistle nor sing in the entries, come down the stairs in five steps, and shake the building; and they're not as bad as the fellows who seem to dance a polka all the way down. I find...