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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...graduates for pecuniary aid. These contributions were elicited by the letters written respectively by '52 and myself. To ask for alms is an extraordinary way to answer a criticism. I write that I disapprove the present system, and you reply by asking me for money to perpetuate that system. Though I will not accept the principle that advice must be backed up by dollars and cents, and though I am not now in a position to subscribe to any cause, should the boating men decide either to send one of their number to England, or to import an Englishman...
...boating, for previous to 1866 the crews were obliged to pay their own expenses, the College only furnishing the boat, if my memory does not fail me. One crew, wishing to experiment, bought their boat without any assistance from the University. Two or even three boats are doubtless necessary (though rarely the latter number), but permit me to say, with all due respect, that the imprudence that orders "five new boats" should pay for the same...
...shall I only dream, though sweet...
...Divinity School or to the Nation. The lectures are not attended by students, because they come at an hour when few can leave Cambridge without neglecting their studies. The writer seems himself to have recognized this reason, as he saw his "genius" on New Year's Day, - a college, though not a public, holiday. The presence of our professors at these lectures has several times been noticed by the public prints: does this look like snubbing Mr. Cook...
...rivalry existed to render the races amply interesting and the seats in a club six eagerly sought for. Had the same energetic management been kept up, the same interest would now be felt; and the decrease of this interest is directly chargeable to the captains of the several clubs, though an honorable exception is the present captain of Holyoke. There can be no doubt that, had the other captains worked as faithfully for their clubs as has Mr. LeMoyne for his, the quick interest of two years ago would still exist. Mr. LeMoyne is, moreover, occupied with his work...