Word: rivers
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...however, not in the least cynical, and if it fails to convince some of us, it is not because the article is not pleasantly written. Of the two pieces of verse, "Winter Dreams" is poetical in conception, but the imagery seems to lack originality, and the lines drag. "River Wind," on the other hand, is really an excellent bit of verse. The idea is extremely poetical, the language, although very simple, is also poetical, while the swing of the lines carries the reader along. The theme of the poem reminds one instantly of Hovey, with whose lyrics of a similar...
...University and Freshman rowing squads will not be called out until after the mid-year period. The work will be confined to the machines and the tank until the weather permits of going out on the river. In addition to the men who composed the University trial eights last fall, eleven men, chosen from the graded crews, will be taken up to the University squad...
What has Harvard, either the College or the undergraduate, gained in the last fifteen or twenty years from its numerous thrashings on the river and on the football field? Is the College any better for them? Are the alumni or the students any better for them? Isn't it a good time to do as the merchant does annually: take an account of stock and ascertain if the business pays? The various crews and teams have got some exercise. The men who composed them have got some social prestige and popular notoriety, and the undergraduates some lung-exercise and some...
This for the winter months. But when the spring comes on apace, the sports change somewhat. Three hundred row, net the same three hundred always; four or five hundred play cricket; hundreds play tennis; and the rest go punting on the river, ride out into the country, or do something else for a couple of hours. The college halls are as deserted as Sahara. A man is seldom found, is almost ashamed to be found, is almost ashamed to be found within the quadrangles. He is out of the swim. If he can't do anything else, he takes...
...upperclassmen. He has his sport for five or six years until he loves it, and until he reaches the university. It has then become habitual. At college he is sought after. The rivalries between the twenty and more colleges in each university are so great upon the river, the cricket and football fields, and elsewhere that every freshman is asked to come out and be tried; and he is tried until he is found to be of no use to his college...