Word: think
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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What this means we are unable to conjecture, but if it is intended to mean that our crew, or any part of it, is to remain in training until the 15th August, it is safe to say that some mistake has been made. The Journal seems to think that the English Universities ought to do their utmost to accept the invitations they have received. It is quite confident, too, of the result of a race with American crews, and says...
...purpose to criticise, but to expound"; yet I cannot help stating the following positions, in which, I think, students themselves will agree...
...have; the same man might be employed, at a certain sum, to keep the hot water running without intermission during the whole of the College year; and the money that is paid by the students for the use of the baths should go to the College. This, we think, is a better plan than to have the bath-rooms, as they are now, under the sole management of a man who may leave us in the lurch at any time he pleases...
...University needs a good many things. I used to think it needed praying for, but the disappearance of the ulsters has reassured me on that score. The pressing need at this time is a course in the philosophy of Herbert Spencer. For this there arises periodically, at about this time, a dolorous wail, as of a child for the bottle, in the College papers, which I propose to forestall this time with some considerations of a lighter sort...
...some strange mischance, lacked that absorbing interest which our recitations so generally possess, I happened to be looking at our elegant friend Augustus just as our instructor called upon Smudge. Now Smudge is not an elegant man. His clothes were certainly not made by Poole, and I don't think his hat ever saw London, or, if it did, it has certainly been on this side of the water long enough to make good a claim for naturalization; but though his clothes are far from new, they are very neat, and he evidently bestows quite as much water...