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...Barnes has gone back from seven to five. Cabot has taken Hartley's place at four. Brown is rowing two. Ayer and Vogel have recently gone to the training table as substitutes. The crew leaves for New London on the 19th. The crew are rowing in poor form and show very little interest in their work. As only about two weeks remain before the race, it is to be hoped that a decided brace will take place in the rowing of the crew. The loss of Borland has undoubtedly greatly crippled the crew; still, with faithful work, there...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FRESHMAN CREW. | 6/11/1883 | See Source »

...freshmen. What that position is, it is almost impossible for a Harvard man to understand. The Courant confesses that, in case of defeat, the existence of the freshmen throughout their college life would have been a miserable one. "As to the 'result,' had our freshmen met defeat, we can form no conception. No class now in college ever knew of such a deplorable state of affairs. Yale is the wrong place for the unsuccessful man, and defeat is not popular. Like the Spartan mother, we say, 'return with your shield or on it.' " Yes, Yale is the wrong place...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/9/1883 | See Source »

...lightly. In the evening, however, there is no escape from a penalty if the student is caught without the wall in ordinary dress. At Oxford, there is among the students, a general disposition to avoid the dress as much as possible, while at Cambridge it is hardly good form to go without it. At a wine party at Cambridge a student is not likely to appear without his gown; at Oxford he is sure to come in ordinary evening dress...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OXFORD UNIVERSITY. | 6/7/1883 | See Source »

Mild sarcasm of the Courant regarding Harvard: "Not to carry a silver-headed cane to breakfast is considered in 'bad form,' and the man who does not own a real bull-pup is an outcast." We are crushed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FACT AND RUMOR. | 6/5/1883 | See Source »

...when he feels the red-hot coin his form with pain is bent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: POETICAL PROVERBS. | 6/5/1883 | See Source »