Word: well
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...single-scull race at Bowdoin, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Williams, and Yale, and there may be other entries. Freshman crews will come from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale, and probably from Amherst and Dartmouth. There is, therefore, every indication that the regatta of 1875 will be well managed, and that it will be of the greatest interest. Let us do everything we can to further the success of our crews, by making up immediately the rest of the money needed for their expenses...
...posting a motion in the rooms three or four days before a debate; if no motion is posted, the standing committee has to provide a subject; no written speeches can be delivered. I have not the report of the Oxford Union, but in Cambridge the debates seem quite well attended; I did not find less than seventy-seven who voted on any motion, and there were over a hundred present at most of the meetings. There is a very interesting list of the additions made to the Library during the last year and of the periodicals taken by the Society...
...late Mr. Benjamin Russell, well known as the editor, during many years, of the Columbian Centinel, used to relate that he was then a boy at school in Boston; and the pedagogue, when he heard that morning of Lord Percy's sally, laconically remarked, "Boys! War's begun. School's done. You may go." Russell followed the soldiers out through Roxbury; but when he returned on that evening, he was refused entry into the city, and was obliged to remain nearly a year, until the evacuation of Boston in March following, beyond the ken of his parents...
...proper repair. There are probably many who spend their vacations in some place with favorable opportunities for rowing, which they cannot make use of because there are no good boats. If the clubs choose to take the matter into their own hands, it would increase their revenues as well as accommodate their members...
...have received the East Tennessee University Monthly, a large periodical which is particularly remarkable for its small number of typographical errors per square mile. Most Western and Southern papers would do well to copy this excellence...