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Word: realing (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Pray do not understand that we advocate the sending of a crew to such a regatta - oh, no; but it sounds ill, you see, to speak as though Harvard desires to enter no contest where her large numbers are not sure of giving her security against defeat. If our real rowing ability is on a par with that of the other colleges, our large numbers ought to secure a correspondingly large share of the victories. Do not give the impression that Harvard asks not only for this advantage, but for a still further one in that she insists that...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/13/1883 | See Source »

...Senior class crew, after several meetings, finds no captain of its choice who is willing, under the circumstances, to take the office. Although the crew suffer greatly in the loss of stroke oarsman, the real difficulty at present lies in the unwillingness of several members to row again this year. The entire matter has been wisely referred to a meeting of the whole class. A point arises here which has before been urged in these columns, - the advisability of setting the day for the class races a week earlier than heretofore. The reasons for such a change are stronger than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/13/1883 | See Source »

...fact, they are ruined past hope in much smaller proportion. Granting other things equal, the chances of great success, these maintain, are greater for the graduates, while the chances of great failure are less; and those two facts - which we may remark en passant we believe to he real, especially as regards the second - ought of themselves to outweigh the heavy claims put in for experience in practical life...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE VALUE OF A COLLEGE TRAINING. | 1/12/1883 | See Source »

...than a very few indeed of the Harvard students are intemperate or licentious The Harvard man is really not so very aristocratic after all. At heart he is pretty much of a democrat. It is a common remark in the college that there a man is estimated at his real worth. and all pretense and conceit is covered with ridicule. During the past fifteen years a wonderful change in the undergraduate life has taken place. The sleep of the Cambridge citizen was once broken by the uproarious singing of students in the streets. Now it is very rare to hear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: UNDERGRADUATE LIFE AT HARVARD. | 1/5/1883 | See Source »

...published weekly, biweekly and monthly, it is not at all times convenient to wait for one, two or three weeks for a paper and then run the risk of not finding the information desired. Besides this, other advantages of not so direct a nature, but none the less real, will undoubtedly accrue to the members of the association. Few will claim that college journalism has reached a stage where further improvement is impossible, and it seems certain that by a judicious exercise of the right vested in the society of denying to objectionable papers admission to the association...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/3/1883 | See Source »

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