Word: offing
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Two boats entered for the double-scull race, one manned by Wetmore and Appleton, '75, the other by Bacon and Weld, '76. The first boat drew the inside and took the lead, which it continued to hold to the end of the race, winning by about twenty-seven seconds.
These races have taken place so early in the autumn, - there being at least six more rowing weeks before cold weather sets in, - that, apparently, there can be no objection to some more sport of the same kind before the season closes.
IT is surprising how little Freshman classes vary from one year to another. Always, taken as a whole, the same despised and timorous race, the additional step of classification shows that the same old percentages likewise recur, A' and B' stepping into the relative places of A and B with...
A careful study of Freshmen is a most interesting employment; instructive, too, if one be willing to learn truths not always agreeable. A hundred and fifty or two hundred young men and boys, strangers to each other and dissimilar in taste and habit, are thrown together toward the last of...
The youth of eighteen who, on entering college, fails to make many good resolutions for his future guidance, is a phenomenon; he who makes and abides by them six months, simply a prodigy. Ah, my rosy-cheeked, jacketed Galahad, talented and spotless, we know very well how your dreams are...