Word: fortnightly
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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TABLE of tides at the Boat-House for the next fortnight. It will be high-water
FORTUNATELY for the Cornell Era, the Advocate and Crimson appear on alternate Fridays, else the Era would lose the chance of exhibiting its want of manliness and manners more than once a fortnight...
...warning given in the last issue of the Record, that unless the requisite funds can be secured no race will be rowed with Harvard this year, ought not to be disregarded. Two weeks of the time within which the sum must be raised have already passed. Within the coming fortnight additional exertions will be made, that the old-time struggle may be enacted again next June. It is needless to reiterate the claims which this matter has on the consideration of the College. Every man ought spontaneously to recognize the misfortune which a refusal to row our doughty antagonist would...
...crew's regular practice has been much less interrupted by the examinations than seemed probable. The average pull for the past fortnight has been about 650 strokes, and the average run about one mile and a half. About thirteen candidates have been daily present. Smith, '79, has returned to college, and immediately commenced work...
THREE numbers of the Amherst Student have reached us during the past fortnight. Two of them are published together, and three of the huge pages of this paper are filled with a biographical notice of a fictitious Amherst trustee, - a notice which is apparently intended to be of a humorous character. The Exchanges are written with a good deal of care, and with a most elaborate effort at chatty easiness of style. Indeed, the effort is so elaborate that the chatty easiness is lost, and the result of the writer's labors by no means repays the pains which...