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...most flagrant sinners against the canons of good taste in pronunciation in college, I have distinguished three well-defined classes: the Western, the Southern, and the New England. The first two, while doing justice, as a general rule, to the vowel o, manifest a decided aversion to the broad a (as in father), with an inclination to make the r painfully distinct. Untrammelled by dictionaries, both pronounce such words as aunt, haunt, daunt, cant, etc., ant, hant, dant, cant, while half and laugh are emasculated into haff and laff. Iron, which authority allows us to charitably call iurn, is contorted...
...attractive enough to induce many to make use of them except just before the races; nor have the prizes offered been of a sufficiently high grade to induce men to train any length of time for them. Consequently the races are more or less uninteresting, and the general interest in rowing is lessened. Mr. Blakey has offered to sell the boats and oars and lease of the house for twenty-five hundred dollars, and this can be paid in two years' time, one instalment of about three fifths of the whole amount, or fifteen hundred dollars, payable on taking possession...
...older, the young men rise into prominence less quickly. Time was when a boy graduated from college at fifteen or sixteen, and had his professional education or a good start in business before he had attained his majority. As college after college springs up, and higher education becomes more general, the number of graduates of the older colleges who become prominent men is proportionally decreased...
...this enterprise that Harvard started the Intercollegiate Athletic Association, which some ten or twelve colleges joined, and it was at Saratoga last year that this association met for the first time as a regular College organization. The tournaments in the Gymnasium were instituted last year; these contests were generally thought to be an excellent thing in affording an additional opportunity to men of matching themselves, and in giving them more practice for the Saratoga meetings; the number of entries was large and encouraging: this, last year. But now we are sorry to be obliged to confess that...
...cannot do otherwise than condemn it; somebody must make the first advances, and so long as a man has made up his mind to spar, it may as well be he as any one else. The Freshmen, too, have been very backward in joining; they seem to share the general fear of an assessment of enormous size: this is entirely a mistake. Out of last year's Freshman class over one hundred and fifty joined the association, and the money got by their initiation fees was sufficient to pay all debts, and leave a surplus of about...