Word: rates
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...suit your fancy. You can't have too large a library, and nothing furnishes a room so well. For my own part, the fellow who lined his walls with boards painted to look like bindings took a step in the right direction. His room looked well, at any rate. At the same time expensive bindings are not the thing. They are well enough on drawing-room tables, but, far from helping you to enjoy a book, they make you afraid to treat it familiarly. And books which look as if you never read them are almost...
...shall trust your taste in pictures, too. Don't overload your walls with old masters, and be called an old fool instead of a young one. Don't waste your money in sporting-prints and third-rate French engravings. But choose pictures that are worth looking at, and at the same time are within the very limited comprehension of the ordinary student. You don't want to seem a prig, nor yet a vulgarian. I should advise you to avoid shingles, for everybody has them; and men who have not taste enough to choose anything better hang them...
...excellent story of the life of undergraduates here is written, it will be received with enthusiasm, and the reputation of its author will be made. The book that is to succeed must be written with some reference to what is said and done here, and it must at any rate carry with it the tone of the place. A few incidents founded on fact is not what we want. The forthcoming book is said to deal with actual occurrences to some extent, but if any Freshman ever induced another to drive a car into Boston by saying, "It will...
...several lengths ahead. This seemed to dishearten the '79 oarsmen, and they withdrew, leaving the other boat to row over the last half of the course alone. The winners of this race pulled in good form, and succeeded in getting their boat through the water at a good rate...
...racing boats of the clubs were filled with men few of whom were fit to row in a race, and the boats intended for those who row for exercise only were, except in a few instances, not used at all. The University Crew, when placed beside a first-rate crew, made no show whatever, and when placed beside ordinary crews, lost its chance of winning simply because money enough was not raised to buy a boat in season to prepare for the race. All this must be attributed to the lack of interest in boating...