Word: men
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...with much voice and deficient musical education, may cause the tune to err slightly in the course of a long song with chorus. Even opera-choruses, with all the aids of conductor and orchestra, sometimes offend in this. But as to our time, we are very seldom much amiss. Men sing with a will, and are pretty sure to come out correctly. And it must also be remembered that we do not sing so much in the interests of classic art as for amusement and recreation; both singers and audience enjoy it. If we cannot please Cambridgeport...
...moment consider the matter from the Republican's stand-point) have exercised this right in declining to row according to the rules of the Rowing Association. In so acting, have they in the slightest gone beyond the bounds of justice? Have they merited to be called " cowards " and " dishonorable " men by the Yale Courant, to have this taunt caught up by the Republican, sealed as true by that paper's reputation for just judgment, and spread throughout the country as an exponent of the character of Harvard Freshmen as true as it is bitter? To this question there...
...solely by what they thought just to all, and not by either a generous but reckless impulse to grant all that a courteous adversary asked for, or any childish dread of being called coward's if they did not do so. What Yale did was quietly to set her men to work, without a word of explanation, and, when a protest was received, to return a defiant reply and to publish insults in her chief paper...
...deem the presence of the Yale crew an indispensable necessity to insure its success." The Courant naturally does not like this; and it states as a "fact" what is not a fact, that is, that "it was long after the crew was selected, and just after some Harvard men had seen them row, that objection was made." From the Freshman Captain we have received different information. No sooner had he learned what Yale proposed to do, than he protested against their course, and it was not till afterwards that the rowing of their crew was seen. Perhaps, had he seen...
...learned parents had read in Pliny Major's "Natural History," of a certain race of men called Skiapodae,-so named because, when oppressed by the heat of the sun, they could, by virtue of the construction of their feet, bestowed upon them by nature, fertile in expedients, lie on their backs and intercept completely the rays of the far darter,-so copiously were they supplied with foot...