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...arrangements for receiving the Princeton Team are concerned, they are above criticism, from the fact that there were none at all, - many of our visitors being allowed to get their lunch and find the ball-field as best they might. The game itself was one of the poorest which our team has yet played, a fact in a great measure due, as we may safely say, to an ill-judged and improper favoritism on the part of the Captain in selecting the team. When the honor of the University is interested in a game, as it was in that...
...membership fee should be ten dollars a year, and every member of the University who subscribes ten dollars or more to the crew should be made a member of the new H. U. B. C. The rent of a rest should be lowered to five dollars a year, and none but members allowed to keep private boats in the houses. For the sake of races the members should be divided into four divisions, according to the present boundaries of the clubs, and each division have a captain who could reserve a boat for the use of his crew at certain...
...many of the undergraduates had buttonhole bouquets, but some poor fellows could n't afford this, and had little ribbons instead; I asked their names, but Mr. Proctor knew none. He advised me to go over to Appleton Lyceum to hear the exercises, which were very intellectual. I could understand some of the Poem, but the other parts were exceedingly deep. When these were ended we all went out to the Boylston Museum, and the class buried a tree...
...valuable for sleep. But I think these men are exceptional, and that the great majority of men would find this morning hour much more valuable for study. The morning is the time when the brain is naturally freshest and clearest, and it is a time also when there are none of the distractions of athletics or entertainment which accompany the afternoon and evening hours. Again, considered from the sluggard's standpoint, the change is not a serious one. Seven o'clock in summer is not as early as eight in winter, and it is also much the cooler and pleasanter...
...some book on etiquette it is laid down as a canon that one ought never to invite to a dinner-party gentlemen of only one profession. If there are none but clergymen present, conversation will turn on theology; if lawyers make up the party, their chat will be of a professional character; and if the dry-goods business is the only one represented, it is safe to say the guests will talk "shop...