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...RANK MAN" has succeeded in effectually demolishing all commonly received systems of metaphysics; he takes as an instance the case of a "quadrilateral with, say, one thousand sides," and has the instructor...
...undergraduate connected with any institution be declarede ligible for its representative or University crew; meaning by "undergraduate" all candidates for the degree A. B., Ph. B., or such other degree as represents a similar or parallel course. But no person shall be allowed to row on the crew of one college who has graduated at another...
...committee of three - Thayer, Whitridge, and Hartwell - were appointed by the chair to stop pool-selling at the regatta. The next vote, as showing that all colleges are unanimously resolved to row as gentlemen, and to avoid all professional tricks or any dealings with professionals, was the most important one passed during the day. It was introduced by Mr. Moses, of Cornell, and reads as follows...
...with that thirst for knowledge so common here, he is always found in his room, and his generous heart compels him to cry "Come in" at every knock on his door. Many a time has he sold his best coat - for the wretches will hardly look at an old one - at about one nineteenth of its value, and then been wheedled into taking his pay in cheap vases simply to get rid of his tormentors...
...this is only one case. We have all of us been as badly duped, though in some other way. I have not forgotten the noble tar with matted hair, who "had layed in the water thirty-six hours" (though his breath had such a West-Indian scent about it that I was inclined to believe he had told but half the truth), and wanted money to relieve a companion who had been there some hours longer. But after I had given him something to relieve his companion's sad circumstances, I had the mournful satisfaction of seeing said companion himself...