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...regimen of the Yale crew is as follows: For breakfast, steak and eggs; for dinner, cold meat, lettuce and fruit, and a little oat-meal and rice-pudding; for supper, steak and vegetables. The crew rows twice daily...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BREVITIES. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...luxury, but of a necessity. (Applause.) What did we do? Why, we sent in a petition, - we waited, - and the next morning butter-plates smiled on us as we sat down to breakfast." She then spoke of their achievements during the Sophomore and Junior years, - of their great crew, - of their Croquet Club, - of their Knitting-Needle Society, and its rival organization the "Hair-pins." (Groans.) Passing on to the principal events in their lives as Seniors, she playfully mentioned that Miss -- tried to secure the election to Beta Kappa Phi, over Miss X., by wearing the most graceful Parisian...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COMMENCEMENT AT WELLESLEY. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...ought, after all, to preserve enough interest in the world - you need not have much, of course - to care whether your crew is supported, and whether your class gives say two-thirds of her quota towards its 'Varsity. I 'm quite aware that '82, as you state, failed to support both her crew and the 'Varsity; still, that class did not get a very good reputation by such conduct. Then, too, it is very fine to say, "Confound all class matters, what do I care for my class?" like the '80 men, and though, like '80, liberal with your money...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FRESHMANIA. | 6/25/1879 | See Source »

...oared race between picked crew and '82; '82 badly beaten...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 6/13/1879 | See Source »

...Athenaeum of '81," to which Mr. J. C. Rolfe responded. Then followed, between the songs, "The First Ten from '82," responded to by Mr. W. C. Wait, '82; "The Class of '81," by Mr. H. E. Seaver; "The Class of '82," by Mr. J. McG. Foster, '82; "The Class Crew," by Mr. C. M. Hemenway; "The Supper Committee," by Mr. W. H. Wade; "The Athenaeum Actors," by Mr. J. L. Paine; "The Standing Committee," by Mr. W. L. Worcester; "The Editors," by Mr. A. O. Jameson; "The Constitution," by Mr. E. A. Whitman; "The Ladies," by Mr. W. C. Lane...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE ATHENAEUM SUPPER. | 6/13/1879 | See Source »

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