Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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THE order of exercises on a Commencement has been stereotyped by custom, so that little more need be said in regard to any particular one than that it was like all preceding. Last year there were the usual happy reunions of the Graduates in different rooms of the dormitories; the...
One remarkable thing there was, however, at least in the mind of a brilliant Episcopal clergyman of Boston, and that was, the wonderful ingenuity shown in selecting dull subjects for Commencement parts.
THE Third Annual Regatta is a thing of the past. About its results we have but little to say; in fact, too much has been already said. Certain newspapers, with a mistaken friendliness, which we ought, perhaps, to be grateful for, but with a want of delicacy which all must...
We do not pretend to discuss now the question of "diagonals" or mistakes in drawing the line. There is no shadow of doubt but that Yale crossed the line which determined the race first, and we congratulate her, not only on having the pluck and the muscle to win the...
Nor have we a word to say about the general management of the race. The judges and committees who could not tell which boat won, whether Wesleyan or Amherst was second, the order or time of the last boats, and who left the flag on the western bank to be...