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...Far on the Southern mountains' crest...
...far off a flood of gold
Some distant far, some nearer seen...
...true that a bond 1,000 cup has been offered for a contest between Yale and Harvard vs. Oxford or Cambridge is quite uncertain, since persons most likely to have knowledge upon the subject profess ignorance, and the rumored author of the proposal is too far away to be interviewed...
...with the best we can bring out. There is a good deal of bombast in this, and reminds one of a bully who boasts when thinking himself safe from fight. We have never rowed but once with an English university, and at that time, although beaten, the result was far from a disgrace. We were under every disadvantage, caused by change of climate and diet, and even of having men in the race not up to their usual excellence; despite this we followed close upon victory. The members of the winning crew themselves affirm it to have been a very...