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Merciful heaven! what was it I saw as I glanced again at the window? Only a little white-robed figure walking with outstretched arms along the pier, over those surging waves where a single misstep was death. For a moment I was paralyzed, incapable. Then I leapt forward - down the stairs - out into the night! If I could but reach her before . . . I could only complete the thought with a shudder...
...much-talked of indifference to control us this year, if we do not show in rowing a very decided energy, we shall suffer a more disgraceful defeat than ever before. To save us from this let all rowing men, no matter of what class they may be, come forward and by their earnest efforts try to make Harvard once more victorious...
...classes now stand front to front, the word is given for the kick-off (first blow), then the struggle has begun. The Freshmen's head man, with his backers, throws himself into the heart of the Sophs, and is knocked down without the least ceremony. The indignant class rush forward to avenge their leader. Then one was deafened by the cries, - "At them, Freshies!" "Down with them, Sophs!" the Seniors urging on the Sophomores, and the Juniors the Freshmen. Soon the football was forgotten, and the game was wont to take the appearance of the traditional bloody rush. Usually...
...from being depressed by our want of success, we pressed zealously forward, and for fifteen minutes we centred the mighty energies of our intellects upon that bald-head...
...leaned further forward, close to the gleaming bald-head, and said in tones clear and distinct: "Isn't it about time for the curtain to rise, father?" . . . I have n't been to the theatre since. I don't enjoy it as much as some folks do. I don't think it's quite moral...