Word: timed
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Mathews Six, as composed at present, consists of Wetmore, '75 (st.); Perkins, L. S. S., 2; Hastings, '76, 3; Bancroft, '78, 4; Preston, '79, 5; Weld, '76 (bow). Changes in this crew, and, in fact, in all the crews, are quite probable before the time of the race...
THERE is a world-wide prejudice, I might almost say superstition, that a gentleman should never soil his hands with work. There was perhaps a time in America, when even those dignified personages in white wigs, knee-breeches, and gilt frames, of whom we are all so proud, - even if they be only distant cousins on the mother's side, - played a part almost manual in laying the foundation of the great country in which we live; but those days are past. The state has successively passed through the ordeals of creation and salvation, in the true old orthodox...
...fortune of every father should, like his sins in the Bible, be visited upon his children. It is reasonable to suppose that a portion of that which is now yours by paternal grace, will in time be yours by inalienable right. But even if you be the first-born, you have a right to expect only your own share; and before concluding that your inheritance will place you beyond the reach of want, you must divide the ancestral income by the number - somewhere between two and ten - of your brothers and sisters, and then turn to statistics...
SCENE, a room in H-lw-rthy. - TIME, the present...
...alleged reasons for making this change was, that Harvard had no fixed color in magenta, but that great confusion resulted from the diversity of shades. This movement succeeded, the color was changed to crimson, and a committee of three appointed to determine the shade. Up to the present time, we have patiently waited for the spirit to move these gentlemen to declare themselves, but as the prospect of ever hearing from them has been growing beautifully less as time wears on, and we are no nearer a fixed standard than before, we think it highly necessary, by drawing attention...