Word: shores
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...should like to ask what necessity there is for the crew to have striped blazers, what necessity there is of taxing the students unnecessarily. The crew are provided with rowing uniforms in profusion, and no complaint is made. But why should $150.00 be spent in buying them a loafing shore uniform. Such is the price which blazers, caps, and white trousers cost. They are not worn nor needed by the men while in Cambridge. To provide them with such luxuries for a three week's stay in a secluded cabin on the bank of the Thames River at New London...
...open mouth. Curious fishes touch their cold noses to it and then dart away. It rushes madly by the upper end of the Island of Paris, where the divided waters foam about the stone break-water; then it loiters idly, hour after hour, in the still waters near the shore. It floates under the noonday sun, and sees the hooks and lines of innumerable lazy fishermen and the naked legs of bathers in the floating baths. It floats in the cold moonlight and bobs aimlessly against the bottoms of the anchored boats, thump, thump, thump, gently and aimlessly. It drifts...
...skill of the sophomores in rowing was tried rather unexpectedly last week. When about one mile and a half from shore the boat sprung a leak and they pulled for the shore in good earnest.-[Yale News...
...professors in regard to athletics, was altogether too strongly tinctured with contempt. The counsel of a dyspeptic professor on the conduct of undergraduate sports is calculated to excite the derision and despite of the sporting undergraduate. The professor is the disinterested observer of Lucretius, who, from the shore, inspects the great labor of another in the vaist of the boat, or who cushions the top rail of a fence, and from that tranquil eminence looks out from under an umbrella, and through spectacles probably green, at the futile yearnings of the left fielder after a high ball. [Times...
...George E. Woodbury, '77, has written a poem, entitled "The North Shore Watch, a Threnody." It is printed for private circulation only but any friend of the author can obtain a copy by sending the price, 82.00 to Mr. G. E. Woodbury, Beverly Hall...