Word: two
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...College. From the Latin, do, dare, dedi, detum, to give. The College gives them only to the twenty best scholars in the class. It's a great honor to get one; fellows that have Deturs hang them up in frames. You hardly ever get more than one; my having two is superb, equal to getting a double first at Oxford...
...fact, I am a little afraid that my imagination, always strong, on this occasion completely ran away with me. However, since that time I have lost much of my admiration for my former idol, and am rather getting to think Tom Brown the better fellow of the two...
...crew of '77 and '78, having won three victories in two successive years, have decided to disband and make room for the younger rowing men in the University. While we regret as much as any one this action taken by the crew at a time when Harvard seems likely to lose its reputation for good rowing, we think it is more fitting to thank them for what they have achieved than to visit them with abuse and sarcasm. It is unfair to complain if men, who have devoted their energies during three years to the interests of boating, should...
...York World has sent us two most amusing little pamphlets, "The World's Almanac for 1879" and "Archibald the Cat." we recommend the first especially to our readers, who can hardly fail to buy it when we tell them that it contains many more of those amusing fables which the World published last year...
...also goes over the matter of the withdrawal of the challenge and the reasons therefor, and repeats the charge of unfairness against Harvard, The following extract shows that even at Cornell there are, or at least were, two opinions about the matter...