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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...city. It is therefore very pleasant to have such opportunities brought to our own door, and we sincerely hope that a considerable number of men will take advantage of them. There have been frequent calls for more lectures this year, and it now remains for men to show by their attendance that there is a real demand for them felt in the College. We feel convinced that no one who attends will feel that he has wasted his time. Professor Child and Mr. Perry have certainly shown a disinterested desire to afford us all the advantages in their power...
...interest unless each college is represented by its best men. However, we were not in a position to grumble. To find fault with men to whom we were under so many obligations would have been worse than ingratitude. We could only hope that some new and unexpected material would show itself, or still better, that the old crew might relent. New material did come forward, much of it very good; but there was a sad lack of weight. On the whole, the outlook for the '79 race was anything bur cheerful. Consequently last week, when the glad tidings were spread...
...success, in order that their boys may try for scholarships, have already been noted. But, putting parents out of the question, it is clear that any practicable tests between minor applicants must be of the roughest and most uncertain kind. A. B., for example, who is able to show that be has no property, and that nobody is legally bound to provide for him, may compete for a scholarship; C. D., on the contrary, who has in the savings-bank just money enough to pay his college bills, cannot ask for this privilege...
...youthful poems Philip speaks of this instructor in terms of great respect. Although the lines are hardly worthy the author of "The Defence of Poetry," they display a charming modesty, and show gleams of true poetic fire. They are as follows...
...London to meet that of Harvard, unless the latter would agree to discountenance the presence of all other crews upon the course during the five days which precede and the five which follow the day of the race (June 27), I earnestly seconded the recommendation. The Yale undergraduates, indeed, show no disposition to resort to such an extreme measure, both because they are not convinced of the seriousness of the possible consequences which might result from the presence of other crews at New London, and because they dislike to act in a way that would expose their motives to misconstruction...