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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...some such plan could be made practicable, it would certainly improve both the University and the class crews, - the University, because the prospect of rowing at the spring races would serve to develop it early in the season, which is well known to be an advantage; the class crews, inasmuch as it would present to each individual member a higher goal to be worked for. So that the height of ambition for a man that stood no chance for the University would not have been reached when he had succeeded in getting on his class crew; while a lasting advantage...
...under the coaching of W. J. Otis, L. S. S., are hard at work in the Gymnasium, for the Freshman Crew: Messrs. Bacon, Brett. Harwood, King, LeMoine, Martin, Morgan, Page, Patton, Perry, Taylor, and Wiley. Any six of the above will make a strong crew, and ought to promise well for the Regatta...
...SMALL card is about to be issued by the S. Paul's Society, giving the dates of the business meetings and the occasional services, as well as when and by whom the Lenten lecture will be given. There will be Litany services every evening during Lent at their rooms, No. 17 Grays...
...from class to class, there is one of a certain student who, when asked, in a recitation, what a legal holiday was, replied that he did not know, for he never had anything to do with one. This story, though told as a joke, has a significance which may well cause us to blush for the narrow spirit which prevails in the government of our College...
...importance of the quality we have been speaking of being admitted, one or two suggestions as to its acquisition may, in closing, be appropriate. It is tolerably well established that the memory can be cultivated. With the methods of doing this, as described in the books, we are all sufficiently familiar, whatever doubts we may have in our own minds as to some of the astonishing results so gravely chronicled by observers more credulous than credible. Still, it is natural to suppose that the faculty of memory, like any other, can be developed by exercise...