Word: pretending
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...purpose, the crew managemene informs us, of taking some decided action in raising funds for the freshman crew. As the matter now stands unless about twelve hundred dollars is pledged within the week it will be practically impossible to send the men to New London. We do not pretend to say whether the fault of so low an exchequer is that of the class in not coming up readily to the need, or of the management in not soliciting subscriptions with sufficient assiduity. The simple fact remains that the freshman class has not, up to the present date, subscribed enough...
...three cornered race. Now there seems to us no valid reason why Harvard should row Columbia this year. The record of Harvard-Columbia freshman races shows an easy superiority for Harvard. In addition to this our defeat of two years ago-the only special argument which Columbia can now pretend to urge-was completely wiped out by the victory of our freshman crew last year. There seems, therefore, no valid reason for a contest with Columbia next spring...
...volumes of "American War Ballads" make a valuable addition to the series of Knickerbocker Nuggets. The collection covers a period from the Indian wars of 1725 through the War of the Rebellion. It does not pretend to be complete, but representative, and to include especially the poems which had a marked influence at their time of publication. Many of these poems are nude in construction, but all are full of vigor. They are interesting also, as showing the development of popular feeling, especially in 1860-61. The book would not have been complete without the last four songs "John Brown...