Word: wrote
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...ancient method of compiling the class history. The Secretary of a late class, in a letter to the Crimson a few months ago, showed at length that the "lives" amount to little more than a farce. "Less than sixty per cent. of the class write anything at all," he wrote; and if this is the case with ordinary classes, what can we expect from Seventy-Seven? The class has been so much divided by the "unpleasantness " arising from this year's elections, that even the usual amount of class-feeling does not exist; accordingly less interest than ever before will...
...have called me worldly and cynical and snobbish. They may be right. Perhaps I am. But I do not think that I am a bad fellow at heart; and I do not think that my letters are bad at heart either. If you have read them as I wrote them, if you have taken satire for satire and seriousness for seriousness, I am quite sure that they cannot have done you any harm, and I think that it is possible that they may have done you a little good...
...portion of them which relates to the rowing-weights. I can conceive that a moderate use of the weights, or, better, of the rowing apparatus may be useful, and need not be irksome. Just after the selection of the coach of last season's crew, I sat down and wrote out the very same ideas as now appear from Mr. C.'s pen, intending to send the article to one of the College papers; but I desisted for the reasons, first, that I could not write temperately concerning what I deemed stupid obstinacy on the part of Harvard boating...
...Occidental intellect of Smith. Between the acts you meet Jones, who says that he comes in every night, and then hurries off in a mysterious way. Little Thompson, who thinks that Jones is the English for God, comes up in a minute, and tells you how Jones wrote a letter to the little priestess in green, Miss Rosalie Montague; and how Miss Rosalie answered the letter, and dined with Jones the next evening; and how Jones has sent her a beautiful bracelet; and how he (Thompson) lent Jones the money to buy the bracelet with; and so on, ad infinitum...
...vicissitudes of human events were shown last year in a case that occurred not far from Cambridge. One man wrote out his Forensics and handed them in as they came due. His mark for the year was 65. The Forensics were given back, and copied out, word for word, by another man who had been away during the year. No. 2 had a mark of 87 for his Forensics...