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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...reasons. Cornell, taking into account the present relations between the colleges, might consider it a sort of apology for what she calls not fair play, but we have no apology to make, since the Executive Committee have done that already. Then it has been rumored that ex-Captain Bancroft said that if he had to row last year's Cornell crew, be should require his whole last year's 'Varsity crew, and surely '82's crew is n't equal to that yet. Let '82, however, do her best to beat Columbia, should Columbia accept, and reserve herself a little...
There was one branch of science for which I thought I had a special taste; I did my paper without a single mistake. Approaching the desk with a confident smile, I was informed, "Your paper was perfect, - not a single error; your mark is eighty-six per cent." "Why," said I, in a discouraged way," "I thought you said that I did a perfect paper." "So I did," said the scientist, in an angry voice; " I never give a higher mark than eighty-six." I wanted to ask him if 86 = 100 with the Faculty in reckoning up averages...
...this point my chum became uneasy. "Come along, old man," said he, "this carnival has given me some ideas about my electives." He led me out of the hall, and when we got home at once made out his elective list for next year, determined to profit by what he had seen...
...races between several crews. Its distinctive recommendation as the scene of the annual Harvard-Yale race is its capacity for quickly sending back to their homes the people whom it as quickly attracts. Nor should the college oarsmen fail to remember that, as one of the newspaper correspondents said last summer, "a well-managed crowd and successful boat-race are inseparable," and that, though all the crowd are not graduates, all the graduates in the crowd suffer whatever it suffers. There are several hundreds of these Harvard and Yale men who would be glad each year to finish up their...
...Faculty now considered that they had already put up with more than could be reasonably expected of them, and came very near insisting that the young man should leave the school. But one of their number, with a generous spirit that did him credit, said he had reflected calmly upon the matter and could not discover that the class was to blame. So they let him return once more, and what was left of the Freshman class immediately broke its other leg. The Faculty were furious. They thought it would have been a happy conceit on the part...