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...whether gay or sad, obscure or famous...
...very useful this summer, both to those who see the races, and to those who merely read the newspaper accounts of them. The appearance of the Springfield course is so familiar to most of us that we have little need or desire to study the position of the famous sand-bank and the Long Meadow. In the record of the Springfield University Race of last summer, the editor places the crews according to his own observation of their positions at the finish, placing Columbia next after Harvard. It is refreshing to observe that, although he speaks of the negligence...
...catalogue of this famous school is particularly interesting this year, owing to the great change that has lately been made in the course of studies. The object of this change is to meet the new requirements at Harvard; and as it was found to be impossible to perform the additional work in the already crowded three-year course, another year, called the "Preparatory," has been added...
...have been driven to the Muses by starvation. Nothing is so conducive to poetic thoughts as an empty stomach; genius becomes more active and more ethereal at the absence of bodily nutriment. In after ages men will point to the THAYER CLUB as the birthplace of scores of famous bards. There dwell our Cambridge Muses; and the idea of many a masterpiece has been evolved during the "fine frenzy" following the weekly dinner on turkey and cranberry-sauce...
ALTHOUGH very old, that story about Mr. Malum is worth repeating:- A friend, meeting Mr. Malum at a famous watering place, asked him if he enjoyed sea bathing. "No; the doctor has forbidden my going into the water." "Then you are malum prohibitum." Not relishing the joke, Malum retorted, "That don't hold good, for my sister bathes every day." "So much the worse, for she is malum...