Word: buts
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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WE wish to plead for the establishment of courses in Ancient and Modern English, which shall make the attainment of Final Honors a possibility. Honors in Modern Languages are based mainly on French and German. But there are no motives to urge men to a careful study of English, except...
And if she be true? ah, could I but know
Last spring, however, when the representatives of two new sets of Freshmen ('83) appeared at New London to "make arrangements for a race," the managers insisted unequivocally that it should not be rowed on the Thames until at least six days after the Harvard-Yale race. They also gave the...
The actual result is well known. Though the weather was perfect; though the arrangements were unexceptionable; though the crews were so evenly matched that every one predicted a close and exciting contest; and though, in fact, the rowing, merely as rowing, was a much more interesting exhibition than has yet...
"The real danger which threatens the visiting public at New London - or which would threaten it were the present managers to be superseded by others less careful and sagacious - is not connected with the observation train, but attaches rather to a theory of management hinted at by the writer who...