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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...pity not to bring them into general notice. It says: "Every one who saw the game knows how little ground there is for their reiterated charges of roughness, ungentlemanliness, to say nothing of stronger expressions which they have found convenient to use." Our Yale friend seems to have lost sight of an important fact, viz: that Harvard College represented not more than two-thirds of the spectators; and right here it would be well to remark that it is not the college which follows blindly whatever sentiment her papers chance to adopt, as the Record chooses to insinuate...
...Corner or Ditton Meadows. Long lines of eager young gownsmen, each in the bright uniform of his college club, rush panting up the tow-path, uttering a babel of discordant but exhilarating cries of encouragement to their champions on the water. One by one the graceful craft appear in sight, the oarsmen swinging like a piece of perfect mechanism, the blades flashing in the evening sun, the coxswain anxiously calculating how closely he dare shave the awkward corner looming in the distance, and how soon he shall venture to call upon stroke for that final spurt which shall bring...
...paper, and for the first time saw himself in print. From the printer's type he contracted the disease of author's lead poisoning, which he had never quite got rid of. He began the study of medicine, as most young men do, with a quickened pulse at the sight of the grinning skeletons of the school, and with his cheeks reflecting the whiteness of the hospital sheets-sights which had since become the merest commonplace with...
...freshmen will have a three-hour examination in Latin before Christmas. It will include the translation of a sight passage and also a passage from that which has been read in class; also grammatical questions on that portion of Roman History touched upon by Livy...
...freshmen are examined in Lysias at sight tomorrow...