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...experienced considerable difficulty and discomfort in getting into their boats, as the large float was not put in position until Monday, and they were obliged to crowd into the small boat-house and embark from the small float. On account of the high winds which are wont to prevail during this time of year, the water has been rather rough. Yesterday, however, the Charles was as calm as a mill-pond...
...with a certain Miss Blair. He was in love with her for several years, and she with him, yet when one wanted to marry, the other didn't, so nothing came of it. The beginning of this courtship was most romantic. "She was so good," he says, "as to prevail with her mother to come to Auchinleck, where they stayed four days; and in our romantic groves I adored her like a divinity." I fear that although his courting was carried on in such a poetical way Boswell was not shaped enough on the Greek model to make such wooing...
...Harvard students are contemplating the production of "Julius Caesar," and Puck would suggest that they use bona fide daggers, and prevail on Rossa to play the title role.- (Puck...
...perhaps, a better word-when the institution we are permitted to visit is, in every sense of the word, a sister college. It is only too true that the great body of the "men who are studying at Cambridge" are unacquainted, save by hearsay, with the mores that prevail at Wellesley, but we venture to make the assertion that this state of things would not endure for a moment if we could but be fortunate enough to receive one of the highly-prized "bids" to a Wellesley Junior Reception...
...given up, as that was the only possible day on which they could play. This was soon followed by a letter, dated Nov. 13, exactly contradictory, which reads: "If you will not play on the 15th, we offer you one more day, the Wednesday immediately before Thanksgiving. If you prevail with your Athletic Faculty to let you play, we can play the morning of that Wednesday. We must play then if at all, as any other day after is entirely out of the question. This is our final answer...