Word: says
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Harvard boat; and we think that they may possibly be able to defeat the Oxford and Cambridge crews. Anyhow, we propose to make the trial, without reference to Cornell, Columbia, or any one else, and if these colleges don't like it they must (as the boys say) "lump it." Our annual race with Yale will of course be rowed, and probably always will be, until the end of time; but with Cornell and Columbia we "have no quarrel"; it would be no pleasure to us to beat them or have them beat us, and if we do row either...
...CORRESPONDENT, whose sense of justice seems to have got the better of his courtesy, questions the accuracy of our information in an editorial in the last Crimson. He objects to our statement that Freshmen in Matthews and Holyoke are obliged to pay the janitors exorbitant prices, because, as he says, the "rules and regulations laid down by the College authorities for the guidance of janitors in the duties of their position" say that the janitors may charge a sum not over twenty-five dollars. All the "rules and regulations" that our correspondent may be able to find on the subject...
...risk of uselessly protracting a futile discussion, we wish to say a few words more about the "Arion Quartette." The facts on the other side have been produced in the Advocate, and it seems well that we should produce ours. The Quartette in question stated, on their earlier programmes, that they were the "best musical talent" of Harvard College, and called themselves the "Harvard Arion Quartette." These were the facts on which we wrote our last editorial about the Quartette. What we did not state, and what we did not then know, was that they afterwards changed their name...
...watering-places and college societies. I was created when Eve was and have lived ever since, though I never grow old. I am a sort of Phoenix. My occupations are various, but at present I am stumping the State for Butler. You have never heard of me, I dare say! Pity! pity! time you did! Let me introduce myself. My name is Humbug; and this old fellow here is an old boxing-teacher of mine, who taught me so well that I used him up long ago. His name is Class Feeling...
...absurd!" exclaimed the Freshman, who had been reading Hill's Rhetoric, with a view to becoming Freshman editor of the Crimson. "It is ridiculous to personify feeling, to say nothing of embodying it in such a feeble old fellow...