Word: musters
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...represented by a four-oar as by an eight. While a smaller college may accidentally have four men who can outrow a Harvard four, owing to their superiority in natural strength, yet when the range is widened, and the test with eight men required, the smaller college could not muster an eight-oar capable of coping with a Harvard eight. Consequently, in consenting to row in fours we might give to our adversaries an undue advantage...
...other colleges miscellaneous lectures, readings and concerts throughout the year seem to have continual popularity and success. But we seem to be hardly able to muster energy enough to make a single course and some few occasional lectures a success. It is true that in certain subjects voluntary lectures are always popular at Harvard. Thus Dr. Sargent's and Dr. James' courses always secure satisfactory audiences; perhaps for the reason that they treat of thoroughly practical and important subjects, and in this respect afford a certain relief to routine labor in more abstruse branches. The lectures of the Natural History...