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...present state of affairs. We take it for granted that it is but a temporary measure, because a healthier state of boating affairs would be shown rather by a change from sixes to eights than from sixes to fours, and we are not ready yet to give up in despair the hope of seeing our boating affairs assume a more prosperous aspect. The "Plain Facts" which we submitted to the notice of our readers in the last issue of the Crimson, should be carefully considered by those men who have rowed formerly and are not now candidates for the University...
...intention to abolish prayers. Day after day passed, and it grew into certainty. One of our college rulers, a man of great learning and influence, was earnestly advocating it; and by the strength of his will seemed likely to succeed in putting an end to them. I was in despair; to lose at once four ringings of the bell a day, - I could not bear the thought, for those were the pleasantest times of all. My grief became anger; my anger grew into hatred of the man who was so cruelly depriving me of an innocent pleasure. At last there...
Well, can you wonder at despair, and if his heart did break...
Then at the last he shouted out great curses of despair...
...Master of the Rolls - for whose functions we refer the curious to the students of History VII. - has forbidden the proprietor of the Cambridge rink to let out for hire skates of any description. The undergraduates are consequently in despair...