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...responsibility of his position. It is for the rest of us now to make up our minds whether we will support him in his efforts to produce a winning crew, or whether we will betake ourselves to our cigarettes and let matters at the boat-house slide along as they can. Whichever course we choose, we should make known our decision at once. Let us either withdraw the challenge we have voted to send Yale, or wake up and refute such slanders as the one at the head of this paragraph...
...gracefully glide along once more...
Streams, whose wavelets, quickly melting, musically roll along...
...amusing way of doing nothing to sit in one's room half dozing, and listen to the steps that come along the entry on their way to the rooms overhead. It is quite an instructive occupation too, presenting, as it does, a wide field for the cultivation of the listening faculty. In the course of a dozen or two such sittings, one gets to know the peculiarities of each individual step, and recognizes the passer-by as clearly as though the partition were transparent. When I hear various preliminary kicks at, and slams of, the neighboring doors, a shuffling step...
...fortunately for variety's sake, beggars' footsteps are not the only ones that can be listened to. Various "dwellers in the realms above," i. e. the third and fourth stories, have their distinguishing characteristics. One saunters slowly along the entry, and then, as if to make up for wasted moments, takes the next flight four steps at a time. Another delights in rapping the whole length of the wall, as if trying to find a sound spot, or possibly to suggest prospects of a visitor to the occupants of the entry. A third drags his stick along the floor...