Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...announce that this suggestion was favorably received, and a society formed, which consists at present of some twenty-five members, the limit of membership being thirty. It meets once a week, at the various rooms of the members; by this means the expense of the society is very much lessened. An hour and a half is whiled away in conversation carried on in German, in the use of which language some have attained remarkable proficiency for so short a time. Since everything connected with this club is to be distinctly German, the collations prepared are of a frugal character...
...friends who make a tri-weekly pilgrimage to Divinity Hall are at present much interested in the Tall...
...some distance from the Colleges which will probably be represented, and who do not wish to consume a great part of their vacation in this vicinity, may have an opportunity of witnessing the regatta; in the second place, that the members of the contesting crews may not lose too much of their time...
There was much difficulty and discussion before the name which it now bears could be decided upon. This we learn from decidedly the best piece of poetry in it, two verses of which we give to illustrate their tribulations as well as the quality of the poetry...
...different." There is no doubt about the altered aspect. The opinion of Professor Hadley of Yale is quoted to the effect that the Yale oarsmen have been so often beaten because they have been good scholars, implying that boating men are, as a rule, poor scholars. Every one having much acquaintance with oarsmen knows that such is not the case. Some of the most prominent boating men at Harvard have been high scholars. The following extract from the Pall Mall Budget of February I, 1873, also goes to prove that workers in the boat are not always idlers...