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...amenities of life. After six or eight hours of sustained intellectual effort, an hour or two in the course of a week spent in dancing, or a half-hour with a party of fellow-students over an open grate with a pipe of Lone Jack or a mug of beer, cannot be productive of such lugubrious results as theorists imagine. The very fact that to hold a scholarship requires extraordinary abstinence, self-control, and mental strength, disproves the much-harped-upon liability to excess in matters of self-gratification...
...prizes in both races were a pewter ale mug to each man of the winning crew. For the single-scull-race there was but one entry, Mr. Griswold of '80, and the judges awarded him a cup without obliging him to row over the course. It is a pity so few of our single-scullers are willing to enter a race. The water was very good for this season of the year, and not so rough as to hinder the club barges. Mr. R. C. Watson, '69, acted as starter; Mr. W. F. Weld, '76, as referee...
...mug-gin, ho mug-gin, from a forrin' sho-ore," is the way a Topeka belle renders the words of a popular song. - College Chronicle...