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Anyhow, I am bound by my thirteen years' personal experience of the actual and possible dangers, discomforts, and disasters connected with attempts at "mixing things" in intercollegiate boat-race management, to plead as eloquently as I can against the rowing of any such race on the Thames during the seven days which precede June 30, 1879. Without pretending to assert that the rowing of it there at that time would necessarily and inevitably confuse and upset the arrangements for the Harvard-Yale race of a few days later, I do insist most vigorously that it would have a strong tendency...
...have already been noted. But, putting parents out of the question, it is clear that any practicable tests between minor applicants must be of the roughest and most uncertain kind. A. B., for example, who is able to show that be has no property, and that nobody is legally bound to provide for him, may compete for a scholarship; C. D., on the contrary, who has in the savings-bank just money enough to pay his college bills, cannot ask for this privilege. And yet A. B., it may be, has a rich uncle, who, as is tacitly understood, will...
...pipes, opened their mouths in agony, but made no sound, respecting, doubtless, the sacredness of the place. This exercise, which seems to have no object, they call in their language Pehn, which means distress or tribulation. As this ceased the young men dashed out, some clearing me at a bound...
COLONEL T. W. HIGGINSON has presented the Library with a collection of four hundred and thirty pamphlets, bound in twenty-three volumes, relating to the slavery question...
...tenth Library Bulletin contains, in the body of the accession list, a valuable note on the early maps of America. Among the accessions is a copy of the Caxton Bible, which was printed from movable type and bound in the short space of twelve hours, on occasion of the Caxton commemoration in 1877, copies of which are also in the libraries of the Massachusetts Historical Society and the American Antiquarian Society...