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...afford cheap rowing for all another boat-house was built, and another lot of boats bought (or rather taken, for I believe they are not yet paid for), and the club system inaugurated. The club members had to pay, in addition to their subscriptions to the crew, a good deal of money for the privilege of rowing in very poorly kept boats; and in these hard times few could afford to join. Now, what all would like is, of course, some plan by which they could get an adequate return for what they pay for boating...
...once or in the spring, there is every reason to believe that we can place boating on a firm footing, put an end to its hand-to-mouth struggle for existence, and arouse for it some such steady interest and genuine liking as that which makes the formation of good crews so easy a matter in the English universities; and maybe we can have as good a time with rowing as they...
...times of appearing, the Courant ranks among the best of its contemporaries. Bright, sensible, and unpretending, it has a strong personality which is its own best recommendation. The bright adaptations of "Mother Goose's Party" are both quaint and original, and the two poems of the number good...
...country, such a class is rapidly growing. Our College has in the past sent forth more eminent literary men than any other; but they - many of them, at least - say they owe not very much to the College: most of their culture was attained after leaving here. In those good old times every man, as I understand it, was forced to study the same subjects. Now a man can, if he have any particular bent, turn his attention to one line of study. The advantage is inestimable...
This rapid and systematic growth of the Library to the position of third in America is owing undoubtedly to Mr. Sibley's conscientious, untiring efforts: he has done a good work, and has his reward, if in nothing else, in the high esteem and veneration of his fellow...