Word: must
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Deep oppressed by the feelings that now we must part...
...needs for his first season a guide for each member of his party; then, as to provisions, there must be coffee, crackers, condensed milk, potatoes, rice, canned meats and vegetables, - in fact, whatever you want that is portable and will keep. The rod should be fifteen to nineteen feet long, split bamboo in three joints being rather the best, although the Irish poles of two joints are good. Tents, too, have to be taken, and tent-life is well enough as a novelty, although the experienced angler prefers the huts of the natives, when there are any. The line, about...
...must repeat that this sport is expensive at any rate, and especially so for the first season, but it is invigorating and full of excitement, and has something wild and unique about it that recommends it to the sportsman...
...when a person looked at them broadside he could see that they went back almost as far as they went forward. This we consider one of the greatest enemies to the rowing of the college, and one hard to overcome; but if a crew wish to do well, they must be perfect in their swinging together. Again, the manipulation of their oars was very loose; there was a slovenly habit of letting the oar drag on the water, and this made a very bad appearance from the splashing which arose...
...authority, that the Southern States are at present engaged in the unpleasant occupation of "writhing and groaning under the ignorant despotism of their colored legislators." This is adduced as a particularly lamentable instance of the evil of considering military men, "ipso facto, the very best for civil offices." It must be acknowledged that it takes a considerable stretch of inventive genius to discover what this and Decoration Day have to do with the writhings and groanings of the South. Perhaps the writer means to lay the blame of the present condition of the South on the Administration. It will probably...