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...draw an analogy from college boating, what is the college regatta of the year if it is not at New London, between the two university crews of Harvard and Yale? And why is this paramount to the intercollegiate regatta rowed on Lake George or Saratoga? Because the element of chance, in winning, is less. That is one reason; and another is, that the interest in the contest is more concentrated, being centred on only two crews...
...motto of the society is "Ars celare artem." The society has no rooms of its own, but meets in the rooms of the various members. In these meetings it has been customary to keep the literary aims of the society firmly in view, and not to allow the social element to preponderate...
...most perfect system of heaves generally won, bracing their feet on the rosined floor. Tricks were constantly devised to throw the opposite team off its balance and drag them across; these pulls were said to be as exciting as the severest pulls to-day, but a much greater element of luck entered into them...
...relations simply argues a want of insight into the causes of these relations. There now exist many societies which, we venture to say, cover almost every need of Harvard social life as it is now constituted. In founding a university club an attempt is made to add a new element to the social life, the element more strictly democratic. It is not strange that a very great proportion of the letters which we have received have been written by non-society men, men who feel that in the proposed plan lies the germ of the destruction of Harvard's social...
...characterized the Yale men of the past, and I commend the Yale spirit to you in this regard. Yield yourself to this influence of the University. Be earnest, honest and fair-minded students. Manliness and the manly sense of duty is allied to this. It is the second element of the Yale student. The rules of the university life are justified largely on this ground; they are the expression of manly living. The gentleman of leisure, even of elegant leisure, is not so far as my observation extends, the manly...