Word: wanted
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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With that cool indifference and want of surprise which are found exemplified so highly in the average Harvard Senior, my friend merely took one of my cigars, and queried, "For greens...
...even then, if you sleep every instant of the time, you only have eight hours, which surely is not too much for any one. Then there are perhaps some who would pay more attention to the service if they were fully awake, and did not feel tired from want of sleep. Let those who favor the present system remember how different theory is from practice, and that they only argue a priori, while we know from experience...
...needs for his first season a guide for each member of his party; then, as to provisions, there must be coffee, crackers, condensed milk, potatoes, rice, canned meats and vegetables, - in fact, whatever you want that is portable and will keep. The rod should be fifteen to nineteen feet long, split bamboo in three joints being rather the best, although the Irish poles of two joints are good. Tents, too, have to be taken, and tent-life is well enough as a novelty, although the experienced angler prefers the huts of the natives, when there are any. The line, about...
...Saturday, May 30, the Class Races came off over the usual Charles River course, and when we compare them with former years there seems to be no reason to feel discouraged at the issue. There was a noticeable want of training in one or two crews, but this was due to ill-luck in forming the crew rather than a want of work. The Freshman crew especially labored under disadvantages, having lost one of its best men to go in the "University," and then, with several men unable to row from some reason or other, they could not present...
That a private library may give full enjoyment, the books composing it should not be bought for show or to lie forever unopened, but because each supplies a want, fills its own place in our circle of silent, thoughtful friends. Such a library can neither be purchased at wholesale nor in a hurry; it must be gathered carefully, and during our college course, and while our thoughts are constantly turned to books, is the natural and fit time to begin the collection...