Word: think
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...think it right that the best courses should be made as easy of access as possible, and I ask the Faculty to put History 7, next year at least, in a position where one may take it without giving up all other good courses...
Columbia. - The victory which this despised crew obtained at Henley is now a matter of history. But when we think of the auspices under which they went to England, - the papers crying them down, outsiders considering their expedition the height of folly, and even their own friends and college mates thinking them rash and foolhardy, - when we think of all this, our admiration for their pluck and determination is only equalled by the surprise and delight that was felt when they declined to accept the public reception tendered them by the city of New York, refusing to make a public...
...home is half the journey,' so much do they make of the start. But you are already on the threshold, and Harvard pilgrims, like those of Canterbury of long centuries ago, are quick to entertain themselves. Different men find many different attractions in a time like this, but I think we shall all of us agree that one of them, at least, is its evenness. The scales, elsewhere ascending and descending with great abruptness, here come to a quiet poise. We are from all sorts of pursuits, all sorts of hobbies, but here there is only...
...income. Mr. Blakie may lock the doors of the boat-house next October, and refuse to admit any one until a sufficient number of paying members is obtained, and this would be a wise course for him to take. In spite of these facts we still think that "the status of the 'house-clubs' for next year does not seem to warrant the discouraging article in the Advocate." There are persons who always look upon the gloomy side of every question, no matter how cheerful the other side may be. There are others who are deeply grieved because the world...
...absurd to think that no one could have ordered a shell of Waters, to be built after an English model, except Robert J. Cook. As for Blakie's shell, it did not split from stem to stern, but two years after it was built it was loaned to the Freshmen, who kicked a hole in the bottom of it. As for Keart, "the Yale factotum," about whom we heard so much before the race, he built a shell for the Yale crew, and it was so worthless that they never could use it, and it is now falling to pieces...