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...more convenient for spectators. It was finally settled that the time of day should be 4.30 P. M., and in case of postponement, Saturday morning at 10.30. It was next decided that there should be two judges from each college, who should be stationed in two boats at each end of the finish-line, and that the Regatta Committee should consist of two persons, one from each college, who should be empowered to act with the city authorities in making all the further arrangements necessary. The committee then adjourned...
...croak about a wasted life. Pleasure is the only good. So live on merrily, and if you should happen to end your days in an inebriate asylum you would n't care especially, and surely the world would be no great loser...
...number that attended the last recital in Music last year, and the last Greek reading this year, was absolutely a disgrace to the taste and intelligence of Harvard. In the beginning of each course there was generally a very large audience, composed chiefly of students; but toward the end, though given by men who have no superiors in their line in this country, the numbers dwindled down to a sturdy few, who were willing to brave rain, storm, bad ventilation, and the attractions offered by the "Athens of America," and were, as far as I can learn, never sorry...
...translator been known to the many, the hall would have been crowded. To allow ignorance of Spanish to debar one from enjoying Don Quixote was very foolish; for the writer, though ignorant of Spanish previously, with a smack of Italian and some French and Latin, was able at the end of the course not only to follow the text, but to find the place when several pages were omitted, - a prodigious feat...
...end of this town was as curious as its existence. The government passed a law that all the men should get up at twenty minutes past four A. M., and assemble at the "Chapel"; there every man was required, under penalty of twenty-four marks, (was the whipping-post still in use?) within fifteen minutes, to write and hand in "a theme and forensic." We are ignorant of the reasons for this most extraordinary enactment; it looks like wanton oppression. Neither are we informed as to the nature of the "theme and forensic...