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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...nevertheless concludes that if not rowing they will be up to something worse, and that their services will at least serve to advertise the college. It therefore urges that Michigan be represented in the next regatta, and suggests as a place of practice a lake of "nearly the same size as Fresh Pond, Harvard's place of practice." O Chronicle! know'st thou not that Cambridge is situate upon the mighty Charles, which empties into the Back Bay, an estuary of the Atlantic Ocean! The salt-sea billow knows the feather of the Harvard oar. Fresh Pond, indeed...
Each coralline stud is the size of a bean...
...graduating class there are 162 candidates for a degree. 209 men have been connected with the class, and there has been only one death. This is the largest class ever graduated by Harvard, the next in size being that of '71, which graduated with 157. - Advocate...
...Pelican of the Desert, as mentioned by the Prophet Job in the Hacts of the Apostles, derived from two Latin words - peli, fish, and can, can - signifying fish-can. By some commentators thought to mean that he can manage fish; but by others supposed to refer to the size of his enormous bill, on vich he carries home his fish to his family, ven, in case of their running short, he nobly begins a pecking of hisself onto the breast, and a sayin', in his vay, "I dies for those I loves," - a be-autiful motto, my little dears...
...much for externals. The chief reason for a decline of the interest felt in Class-Day may be found in the great increase of our classes. While the classes were one third or one half the size they are now, Seniors, with a few exceptions, could invite nearly all their friends in the vicinity to come and enjoy all the Class-Day exercises. Nowadays, with eight tickets to the Chapel and five to the tree, very few men can invite a large share of their acquaintance to these the most interesting parts of the programme...