Word: says
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...into one grand and simple element, and a few minor ones. The all important element is "tubbing"; a "tub" being a clinker-built boat about twelve feet long and four wide, with an experienced oarsman sitting in the stern, and two green hands, or otherwise, at the oars. I say "or otherwise," for even the members of the 'Varsity are tubbed up to the day of the race. When a man is given up as hopeless, he may amuse himself by going down the river in an eight or a four; but if a man in a scratch eight shows...
...rush round the tree he has nothing to say...
...practically ends the connection of the Class of '74 with Harvard University. To say that it will be missed is not to say too much. It has done well by every College interest. Its place, indeed, will be filled, but what it has done will remain behind it to testify of its ability and enterprise in all good works. The record of the class is in some respects remarkable. While not behindhand in good scholarship, it has chiefly excelled in the direction of athletic sports. In boating matters particularly it has ably sustained the reputation of Harvard, and the success...
...Orient says, "There must be something wrong with a college when all its students say, upon graduating, 'I wish I had gone elsewhere.'" We are inclined to think that the verdict of insubordination and unwarranted rebellion so generally given by the press is not the only side of the question...
...those whose faces we saw on Wednesday evening for the last time as college students in concert, with sincere regret we say "Good...