Word: went
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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THREE maidens went sailing out into the world...
...custom, for many years, to watch the crew before the annual race; and for this purpose I went, once yearly, to the boat-house in Cambridge, and, many times to the Milldam in this city, opera-glass in hand...
...years went on it grew and grew...
...accessible, is very apt to pass almost all his time with men. And the result is that a college education, which ought to make finished gentlemen, oftener succeeds in roughening than in polishing the diamonds which are confided to its care. I remember that during my Junior year I went to one or two of the assemblies as they called the parties which the students managed, and my observations at once amused and annoyed me. A number of very good fellows were there who had confined their social experiences to college societies, and who were delightfully ill at ease...
...know his opinions, and to hear his reasons for taking a different ground. The present captain, we happen to know, has given the subject of strokes a great deal of consideration. At Springfield he studied the stroke of the Yale men, and after the regatta at Saratoga he went to Philadelphia, saw both the English crews, and talked with the captain of the London Rowing Club Four. He therefore has definite opinions. A public statement of those opinions would certainly be read with the greatest interest by both graduates and undergraduates...