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...three mile race, with turn, for class eights with coxswains; prizes, a pair of silk flags, inscribed, one with the names of the members of the winning crew, the other with the date of the race and the year of the class. These flags to be class property. Also, for each of the eight victors and their coxswain there will...
...lifting-machines, and Eng 6, a test of the capacity of the lungs. Phil 7 was hazardous tight rope walking, Phil 2 a performance upon the flying trapeze, and Phil 3 apparently was a balloon ascension. (This last statement, I know, supposes that balloons were invented at an earlier date than is commonly given; but probably the ascensions so plainly described here were only to a small height and in a captive balloon. Some, however, maintain that this amusement was not a balloon ascension at all but was diving after stones in muddy water) Span I was a three-legged...
ALMOST every one, in reading Macaulay, must have been struck by the numerous allusions to an imaginary school-boy, who is called upon to refresh the memory of the reader upon subjects as widely different as the date of a king of England, the construction of a Greek play, or the theory of government. I have always had a great reverence for this imaginary personage, whom I think as badly treated as was the famous Mr. Blank, mentioned in the Spectator...
...gladiators when victorious. The result of this tendency is naturally felt in such a moment as the present. There are apparently few men to replace the old crew, as few have been willing to try for the 'Varsity with the hope of getting on only at some distant date. This was the case when Tyng and Ernst left the Nine. Very few if any had practised with a view of supplying their places; so the loss of these players was almost equivalent to the loss of the championship. It is not the fault of the crew that this...
...your full University boat. Since there is no possible arrangement by which a crew from Harvard can be in England before the latter part of July, it is clear that in the event of any challenge, Oxford in using her right to name time and place must appoint no date earlier than the 1st of August. It is a thorough appreciation of all the discomforts and annoyances so late a time will of necessity bring to your crew, which influences rather this private letter to you than the customary direct challenge to your club. Harvard feels a claim on your...