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...which comes from the fact that a large number of men are gathered together with interests more or less in common. Numbers always give a certain amount of influence, and I, for one, do not see why we should not use this as much as possible for our own good. To come to the point, a large number of us want to go to New York (at Thanksgiving, for example) within a train or two of each other. We buy our tickets, one by one, at the usual rate, instead of clubbing together and getting the lower rates which competing...
Captain Bancroft said that, as a member of the crew, he should enjoy rowing two races, since it offered a greater reward for the hardships of training, and since the first race was good discipline for the second. He was, however, undecided as to the advisability of entering into a series of races with any college besides Yale. At all hazards, the Yale race should be kept independent of all others and above all others...
...discomforts with which all who use the Library must be acquainted: the ventilation is often very bad, the atmosphere close and impure; and most of the chairs which are provided are such as adorn an Irish kitchen, but are wholly unsuited to a fine Library. Let us have good air, good chairs, and plenty of them...
...Idiot!" said I, "he 's shamming sleep; cold water will do him good...
...launched the pitcher into his face. It was summary treatment, I know, but I think it did him good, for he did not speak till we had each taken an arm and hauled him into the main room. He was a mild-looking youth, in a frock-coat and white...