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This determination deserves admiration. It is the assertion of the privileges of blood and culture. It is the declaration of the existence of a society whose doors are closed against all who do not prove their right to admission. It is evidence that America feels the need of an aristocracy, and that she can afford to support one; and any country which cannot is too poor a relation to be admitted on equal terms into the great family of nations...
...dames," besides being quite neat, is exceedingly flattering to Mrs. M., and although I have known of Mrs. Morrissey only as the wife of a former notorious rough, still I suppose if Mr. Buckham chooses to call her a "high-bred dame" it is perfectly correct. The gentleman, however, need have no fear that the high-bred dames, Mrs. Morrissey included, would ever so far forget themselves as to be induced, by the entrance of his crew, to do such an utterly rash and absurd thing as to bet on them...
...reading interests of the College. It is to such liberal-minded generosity of Harvard men that we see our College occupying its enviable place in the higher culture of our time; and we look to the able and thinking undergraduates to come forward now, and whenever there is need, to remove the burdens by whose weight the usefulness of the Reading-Room is impaired. The generous response which this call has already met with but indicates that the old true spirit of Harvard is still here, and shames the shamelessness of those men who sow only where they can receive...
...property to the College. The College then agrees to pay off the mortgage on the Boat House, and to provide the building, up stairs, with some 200 lockers, five shower-baths, a bathing-room, and a reading-room. In order to carry out this plan, some $3,500 will need to be expended. A further sum of $1.50 will be needed from each member of the Clubs, in order to pay the interest on this money...
...Freshman crew we can only say that they need coaching, and a good deal of it. Their new boat is of better model than the last, as the floor runs farther towards the ends; but the men in the boat seem to improve but slowly. The crew is composed of good material, but needs more polish. The stroke waits a little at the beginning of the recover, - a very bad fault, - and there are many other failings among the crew. The swing together is not so perfect as it might be. No. 3 does not pull his stroke through...