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...good plan to have another this autumn? The autumn is certainly as favorable a time as any for training, and there are no examinations to interfere with out-of-door exercise. If prizes should be given as handsome as those of last spring, many would doubtless enter...
...many amusing things that the reader of the daily papers has found this summer, the most absurd probably are the "resolutions" passed by the Aldermen of New York in honor of the victorious Columbia crew. A great many of the denizens of the metropolis were doubtless enthusiastic over the news, and the city fathers thought they were anticipating the wishes of Columbia graduates and the people at large in offering the victors a public welcome on their return; but the language in which their preamble was couched was such a marked instance of "slopping over" that the most ardent sympathizers...
...race, especially as the crew of this year will contain seven of the old oars of last year's boat. With such a crew there would be a good prospect of wiping out our former defeat by Oxford. The requisite funds to send an eight to England could doubtless be raised, as many graduates would be glad to contribute...
...heat of the sun most good-naturedly; most of them laboring under the delusion that "the great intercollegiate boat-race," as the hand-bills called it, was to decide the respective merits of Harvard's and Cornell's rowing. As most of them sympathized with the latter college, they doubtless went away entirely satisfied...
...burly negro slams down your plate before you, and hurries off again. It is hard to realize at first that it is necessary to wait a considerable time before getting anything to eat, but you soon learn that it is indeed so. The superannuated turkeys and hens will doubtless be as numerous and excellent as ever. It seems cruel, however, to kill an animal that is so near a natural death...