Word: rightly
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...anniversary celebration. As our correspondent points out, this year of all years was hardly one in which to stop the custom of awarding prizes in the scratch races. Moreover, if the contestants entered the races under the assurance that prizes were to be given, the boat club has no right to withhold them. Let the boat club, then, settle this little difficulty by purchasing the cups immediately and awarding them, with appropriate inscriptions, to the winners who have been patiently waiting for more than four months...
...looking weapon about a yard and a quarter in length, quite blunt but for about ten inches at the end, where it is double-edged and as sharp as a razor. Thus accoutred, our hero, being the challenging party, walks slowly forward to the middle of the ground, his right arm, which must be terribly heavy, supported by the Fuchs, or junior freshman of the Verbindung, and surrounded by his comrades and admirers. Meanwhile the same elaborate preparations have been going on at the other end of the ground, and in a few moments the men are standing opposite each...
...Right Reverend H. A. Neely, D. D., Bishop of Maine, will preach before the St. Paul's Society in St. John's Chapel at half-past seven this evening. A cordial invitation to be present is extended to the public. Seats will be reserved for students until the opening of the service...
...must say that Columbia shows great presumption in proposing any such arrangement. If she wishes to row Yale - a very laudable desire by the way - there is no reason why she should not do so, but to drag Harvard into such a race is more than she has a right to propose...
...Darwin suddenly remembered that he had once written a letter to Dr. Asa Gray, the famous botanist, of Cambridge, Mass., in which he had expressed the same views that Wallace had announced in his essay. The publication of this letter instantly set Mr. Darwin's claim to the equal right of the authorship of the "Doctrine of the Origin of Species" on a firm basis. And, most strange of all, in the "Life and Letters of Mr. Darwin" now in press, he declares that it was Malthus' Doctrine of Population" which first suggested the theory to his mind also...