Word: possession
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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WHATEVER may be the respective merits of the Oxford and Harvard strokes, and whatever advantages Captain Cook's "adaptation of the English stroke" may possess, there is another question outside of these matters, - the question as to how an active interest in boating can be revived. The results of the races last May were not flattering to the much-extolled club system; the boats were filled with hastily collected, imperfectly trained oarsmen, that varied as much in ability and knowledge of rowing as a crew possibly could. The boating-men who were not in training for the "Varsity...
...which gives some interesting facts regarding the government of the College, and some very curious rules relating to the dress and deportment of the students. The original manuscript was given in 1683 to Jonathan Mitchell, Freshman, it being customary at that time for Freshmen, on their entrance, to possess themselves of manuscript copies of the laws, as it is now to provide them with "Bibles"; and these manuscripts, on account of the scarcity of paper, were wont to be handed down from class to class. These laws, as agreed upon by the Overseers, President, and Fellows, were divided under three...
...other day, as I was improving a shining hour in a recitation which, by some strange mischance, lacked that absorbing interest which our recitations so generally possess, I happened to be looking at our elegant friend Augustus just as our instructor called upon Smudge. Now Smudge is not an elegant man. His clothes were certainly not made by Poole, and I don't think his hat ever saw London, or, if it did, it has certainly been on this side of the water long enough to make good a claim for naturalization; but though his clothes are far from...
...spite of his specious remarks on Khayyam, appearances tend to prove that either our reviewer had a very slight acquaintance with Persian poets, or, happening to stumble on Mr. Fitzgerald's translation of Khayyam, tried to show an acquaintance and familiarity with Persian literature which he did not possess, or had thought he had caught Mr. Emerson napping, - a thing, by the way, which is not often done...
...college because they work and try to do their duty? and do you suppose the world at large appreciates merit any more than we do here? My young friend, your education has been seriously neglected. Do not let the insane idea that justice exists this side of the grave possess...