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...race is considered in nearly the same light by the university in general as the Yale-Harvard 'Varsity race. We have noticed lately, we are sorry to say, that a spirit of indifference as to the welfare and success of the crew has pervaded its members. They have certainly displayed much laxness lately in their practice rows - even failing to get out on the river last Saturday, through absence of one of the members. This laxness seems to signify a perfect willingness on their part to take last place on the river in class races. We kindly advise them...
...which runs throughout the volume and which is credited to Everett, is conducted with much spirit through its long course. I cannot describe it; it is rambling and incoherent and professedly a local satire. It is in heroic couplets, and Mr. J. Lowbard is its titular author. To display its character I need only quote parts of the argument of one book, which treats of "The arts of rising in the world - Marriage - Poetry - Dolphins - Geese - British Cruisers - Spithead - Aphorisms of two kinds, sharp and flat...
...Sorosis wore a black velvet walking suit and pearl-colored gloves. (Just here I should very much like to know why it is that women with too much figure or no figure at all invariably choose to display their ample or awkward proportions in that most indiscreet material - black velvet.) I have often thought that some of these idiosyncrasies of dress were owing to the smallness of our mirrors. We can only see the bust in the looking-glass, and the consequence is that not only women, but men, also, are apt to wear a fortune in diamonds and other...
...have been accommodated in the numerous vacant seats forward, from which they were, however, excluded - for what reason it is unknown. The people were crowded and restricted, and, from the noise and flurry, a stranger might have imagined there was going to be, perhaps, a wedding, or some public display. The services, with some exceptions, were quite lacking in impressiveness, and, in some instances, were insufferably dull and without the glow of feeling that should have been an attendant inspiration on such an occasion. The fetid atmosphere, the mediocre character of the exercises, and the suffering humanity, made this...
...trousers, too, would certainly have been too wide and our coats too long if it were not for a conspicuous, not to say indecent, display of trouserings made by certain other of our friends...