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...cannot undertake to set forth in the columns of the Crimson the system of training and rowing which we follow this year. If published, it would fill a small volume. For such a work I am not at present prepared, and anything less, I take it, would be unsatisfactory...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ANSWER. | 1/12/1877 | See Source »

...CANNOT the paths in the Yard be more effectually cleared of snow...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...recitation-rooms of University know no occupants but the ghosts of the dead. And what of those who reared the beast that shall have undone us? Will the analogy be completed? I see - But no! here the curtain must be drawn; there are scenes which even the undergraduate cannot look upon unmoved...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HOUR EXAMINATIONS. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...seemed to be a very good fellow, and that you were devilish amusing and impudent Now Robinson himself is a very good sort of a person, but his notions of amusing impudence do not agree with mine. He is an extremely nouveau riche, in fact, of the sort who cannot see the difference between vulgar impertinence and the decent amount of assurance that every gentleman ought to possess. And ever since I met him I have been tormented with the idea that you might possibly be sacrificing your old notions of manners, which I am bound to say were very...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »

...course you know, during your first year or two at college, you cannot expect to mingle with the gay world as if you were a grown man. Even the delightful assemblies of which I spoke are, or used to be, closed to you. At the same time you can expect to know a reasonable number of ladies, and if you take advantage of the introductions which I took the trouble to procure for you, you can expect to know ladies whose acquaintance will be not only agreeable, but also useful to you, as you grow to be an older...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LETTERS TO A FRESHMAN. | 12/15/1876 | See Source »