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...start the bottom showed itself last year, and yet last year was not unusually dry. This was in the direct course of the boats, and although no boat actually ran into it during the race, yet some boats had to go over the shoals around it. Besides, the current is very uneven in different parts of the river. The channel is never over one third, and often only one fourth, of the river's breadth. Out of the channel the current is very much weaker than...
...champions, others in the more mercenary expectation of "getting on" bets. The latter class were sadly disappointed; a long line of defeats has implanted in the Yalensian mind a deep conviction of the impropriety-nay, the immorality-of betting, especially against Harvard. Two and three to one was the current rate of investment...
...favor against six for our opponents; but Yale now began to pick up fast, and scored five and three in the next two innings to nothing and one for us. White had changed positions with Perry, but, beside frightening the enemy from stealing second base, could not change the current of luck, which seemed setting in, in favor of Yale. At the beginning of the last inning we stood two runs ahead, and failed to score; Yale came to the bat in good spirits, while our men showed a nervousness which they rarely exhibit in the field. The first striker...
...caught, and, steeling his heart, he tried to crush her by his formula: "It would afford me the sincerest gratification, madam, to furnish you with any pecuniary aid in my power, but I am constrained to say, with the poet, that 'chill penury has froze the genial current of my soul.'" This, delivered in pompous tones and with many a gesture, had its effect, - more sighs and tears. At length she summoned up courage to ask if he could n't give her a pair of old pants...
...college popularity: some wish to be popular with a few, and therefore seek by means of their money to make friends with the conspicuous members of prominent societies; some try for it by prowess in boating or at ball, and some by generous contributions to the funds for current expenses; some by being jolly fellows, and others by the politic exercise of an eloquent and self-asserting tongue...