Word: newe
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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EDITORS MAGENTA, - In view of the new boating-system at Harvard, you asked me to write you what I know about college rowing here. The science of rowing, or, rather, of turning out a good crew, may be resolved into one grand and simple element, and a few minor ones. The all important element is "tubbing"; a "tub" being a clinker-built boat about twelve feet long and four wide, with an experienced oarsman sitting in the stern, and two green hands, or otherwise, at the oars. I say "or otherwise," for even the members of the 'Varsity are tubbed...
...pressing onward to the new...
...close of a College year always calls forth remarks which, although trite in themselves through annual repetition, yet express sentiments which never grow old. It is the old, old story, but the characters are changed with every year. The wheel turns. New men fill the old places, while the old, as in a game of ball, are forced off their bases to make way for the new. This is inevitable. It is life. Nevertheless, it is hard for some men. They regret the old, are fearful of the new. Under all the festivities of the season there flows a strong...
...then, with no feigned regret that we wish them farewell, and God-speed in the new field that is before them...
...receipt of the July Atlantic. Mr. Howells begins his promised story, called "A Foregone Conclusion," in a way that excites much curiosity as to what is coming. The scene opens in Venice, of which he has before written so beautifully. Bret Harte is redivivus in a kind of poetry new to him, but his style is unmistakable. The little poem, "Fair and Fifteen," is short and sensuous, but good. Robert Dale Owen contributes some good reading matter, while the other parts of the magazine are ably sustained...