Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...subscriptions this year have started out well, and, if promptly paid, will be a fitting response on the part of the students to the earnest efforts of the crew. The candidates at present are Messrs. Legate, Harriman, LeMoyne, '77, Loring, Littaner, '78, Crocker, Smith, Preston, Swartz, Brigham, Conlan...
...Glee Club numbers sixteen members, and is said to sing very well...
...coat-tail pockets) he keeps on in a very measured and confident tone, pausing for breath between each word. He makes translating Latin at sight his specialty. We all know, too, the man who parades his knowledge by prompting you at a place which you know fully as well as he does. He is only a little less provoking than the man who will not prompt you when you want...
...this part of the world there are very few men who approach my idea of what a gentleman ought to be. There are some bright men, and a great many smart ones; some able men, and an unusually large number of honest ones; but very few who are really well-bred men of the world. This is perfectly natural. We have no families, or if we have, etiquette does not permit us to say much about them; and, in general, our society is composed of two classes of men, - those who are busily engaged in making fortunes, and those...
...very different from the one in use now. A thousand strokes a day at the hydraulic machines used by our crew necessarily brings out the pluck and endurance of the candidates for the boat. Pulling at an iron weight attached to a strap was a different thing, and might well have the effect our correspondent fears. An extract from an English paper on the construction of racing-boats, which accompanied the letter, but which was too long for insertion in our columns, we have banded to the captain of the University crew. If all our graduates took as active...