Word: reasoner
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...some of the oarsmen been a little more attentive to their rowing costume. Rowing with bare backs, to say nothing of still more extensive nudity, is discountenanced by all leading boat-clubs of the country, as well as by Oxford and Cambridge, and there seems to be no reason why Harvard should be backward in this respect...
...execution of the poem entitled Mutation, in the Union College Spectator, is better than the average. We learn that Union College has decided on garnet for its color. There will now be no reason why they should not retain their magenta...
...closest scrutiny, and as the time of the race draws near, as comparisons are made, and as "points" are discovered, the knowing ones begin to have settled opinions about the order in which the most important boats will cross the line on the 29th. Holworthy is, not without reason, looked upon as the favorite for first place in the six-oared race. Of the four crews this one alone has retained the stroke who pulled in the fall race, and in no other boat are there so few new men. The stroke is good, and the men get their strength...
...Sargent, the stage manager for the evening, and the Committee have reason to be congratulated on the manner in which the entertainment went...
...band next played "Listen to the Canary-Bird," and Aristophanes appeared before the spectators with a little army of trained canary-birds, trick frogs, and performing clouds. For a reason not apparent to the spectators the animals would not obey their master, and their obstinacy so affected the clouds that they were dissolved in tears. Aristophanes, after a short consultation with one of the supernumeraries, came forward and addressed the audience as follows...