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...great pity that the crew dinner should prove a fiasco, especially after their hard-won race last June. If it were ever becoming to banquet a crew, it would certainly be this one, who labored perseveringly in the face of defeat prophesied on all hands and were finally victorious over rivals whose method was considered easy victory or ruination, and which proved neither one nor the other. The subscribers for the dinner have come forward in ridiculously small numbers, either through forgetfulness of the near approach of the date assigned or for some less charitable reason. Let us hope...
...theatre in a body, and to induce their classmates to join with them in the undertaking. It is greatly to be hoped that this rumor is unfounded. We can conceive of nothing more unfortunate than the revival of this custom at Harvard; nothing of late years has ever tended so much to hurt the reputation of Harvard in the outside world as the continuation of this harmful custom. To '85 belongs the honor of first abandoning it. Let not the charge be laid upon '86 of reviving the practice after once the precedent had been established to ensure its discontinuance...
...university; but the fact that it takes the matter up at all would require that some slight mention at least be made of other sets besides that which Bixby and Symonds cultivated. For there is another "set" here, and a very large one it is. Unfortunately no author has ever taken it upon himself to make that set the personages of his book, but it does exist. Alongside of the "fast" set there is the hardworking set - that set of men that come to college to study and to learn. It is true that their lives afford less material...
...book is witty, full of bright sayings and well adapted to quotation. The account of the sermon in the church at Dale is very amusing and familiar to every one who has ever heard an Orthodox minister of the old school...
...Warren in the Parker House, and said, as they were speaking of the plays then in progress, "By the way, Mr. Warren, while I was in New York I went to see Jefferson as Bob Acres in the 'Rivals.' Jefferson himself was, of course, as good as ever, but he was supported very badly." "Ah, yes," answered Mr. Warren, "I have heard that the 'Rivals' was being presented in New York, with 'Sheridan twenty miles away...