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...studied as such. Crews may differ from year to year in bone and muscle, but these are differences over which we have but little or no control. The energies of Harvard's leading boating-men should, then, be directed to the manner of rowing, or to what the English call "form." Much has been said and written about the famous "Harvard stroke." I do not hesitate to brand such trash with the name of buncombe, and I earnestly beg Harvard's aquatic chiefs not to be beguiled by like nonsense. There is but one good way to row; all others...
...therefore feel that I may without impertinence call the attention of your readers to a plan which has occurred to me, and which may not prove impracticable. It is nothing less than the extension of the class festivities over the dreary waste of time which comes between the present Class Day and the present Commencement. If I am not misinformed, a Commemoration Week, or something of that sort, is the regular end of an English University course; and every day of that week is filled with appropriate exercises, - some of a literary kind, some of a social. I think that...
...conduct; but he ought so far to conquer his aversion to any particular vices that whenever he meets a new man he can gauge his character, he can set off his good points against his bad ones; and if he finds that the good points predominate, he can safely call him a fit man for a friend. The safest rule to govern your own conduct is this; Never do anything which you are ashamed to confess. If you stick to this you will not have to lie, and if you can avoid lying you will find that your course through...
...light gleaming in your room as you return across the Yard, to have some one to call to you or growl at you as you open the door, some one ready to laugh with you at your author's wit, or to swear with you at the blindness of a textbook, - all this certainly tends to make life sweet. The other day, when that worthy African continued for the space of five minutes to call down blessings from Heaven upon my head in return for my five-cent subscription to the missionary cause, could I, had there been...
Your room, to be sure, is furnished plainly; but your worst enemy could not call it shabby. And I flatter myself that it will not generally be pronounced to be in bad taste. The curtains, the paper, the furniture, and the carpet are in keeping with each other; and barring that horrible mantel-piece, which I did my best to conceal with a heavy cloth, there is nothing in it that does not please the eye. So far I have done my best for you. There are two things which I have left to your own taste, - books and pictures...