Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bows at the finish, and it is in this fact that the kernel of the whole matter lies. It was generally understood by the Harvard crew as they drew up to the stake boat that the boats were to start by sterns and finish by sterns, but a remark from Captain Hull before starting undeceived them, and the time was actually taken as the bows crossed the finish. Now, considering the closeness of the race, it is not at all an impossible supposition that a race might be so close that Yale's bow should be ahead of Harvard...
...subject of remark that students seldom appreciate the advantages offered to them in the shape of lectures and concerts. This is especially the case with the series of chamber concerts that are being given in Sever Hall. The fourth one of the series to be given this evening presents an unusually fine programme, and one that calls for a large attendance. We hope that the students will not allow these concerts, which have been such an artistic success, to fail from a financial point of view...
...years ago it was not uncommon to hear a senior remark: "Indeed, I never thought of going into the library in my freshman year." Today the toiling freshman not infrequently sighs: "Why are we expected to read half of the books in the library?" From the ceaseless throng that come and go the library may properly be termed the university workshop...
...News maintains its usual worthless character, and we wonder that its readers can stand five issues a week, and should be inclined to admire their long suffering, provided it were displayed in a better cause. - [Crimson.]. The amount of injury done by the Crimson's remark may be great, but we have yet to feel the slightest effect of it, and sting for us there is none as long as we continue to hold the position which is now acknowledged us. The reason why the Crimson should make such a remark is patent to everyone who knows our loyalty...
...Sargent prefaces his article with the remark that "there exists in the public mind a wide spread misapprehension as to the amount and the system of physical training in American colleges," and he states as his object in the article before us "to correct this mistaken notion, and to call the attention of educators to the urgent need of some system of physical exercise in our highest institutions of learning...