Word: palled
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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Hung o'er us like a pall...
...shrouded within a cloudy pall...
...beaten because they have been good scholars, implying that boating men are, as a rule, poor scholars. Every one having much acquaintance with oarsmen knows that such is not the case. Some of the most prominent boating men at Harvard have been high scholars. The following extract from the Pall Mall Budget of February I, 1873, also goes to prove that workers in the boat are not always idlers in the study...