Word: returning
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...return to the Spartan-like simplicity of early rowing days sounds well in theory, but if put into practice I fear it would be disastrous to future success on our part. In order to meet our rivals on an equal footing, we must be denied none of the advantages which they have. Were it impossible to meet them on equal terms, it would be better not to meet them...
...College Library with its wonted promptitude in adjusting itself to beneficial suggestions, has had slips of paper printed, serving as book marks, which request those who borrow books in great demand, to return them in one or two weeks, as the case...
...obtained without charge from the members of the club, or by addressing Mr. Henry Dixon Jones, 7 Stoughton Hall, Cambridge. Mr. Irving, in order to deliver a lecture at Sanders Theatre, March 30, will be obliged to come from New York on the same day. He will, however, return immediately after the lecture, in order to miss no more than one evening of his present engagement at New York. In his absence, his company will play as usual. The following letter of invitation was sent him by the president of the Shakspere Club...
...still maintain that these uniforms are an unnecessary expense. The present management do not intend to be wasteful, but in view of the tremendous burden which sports have come to be upon the purses of the students, we should not object to see a return in some respects to the more Spartanlike simplicity of former years. The crews of ten or a dozen years ago which battled for Harvard did not find it necessary to have shore uniforms bought for them, even though they were quartered near more than three other crews and close to larger cities than New London...
...already been suggested that taking notes aids the memory. Not a few men claim that this aid to the memory is the most valuable return that they get for their trouble of taking notes. But, be that as it may, still another advantage must suggest itself...