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...Thomas Hervard equally to be devided between them In witness whereof I have unto every sheete being seaven in number put to my hand and have sealed the same this second daye of Julie in the eleaventh yeare of the reigne of our Souaigne Lord Charles by the grace of God of England Scotland ffrance and Ireland King Defender of the faith &c. Annoq Dni 1635. The marke...
...approach of warm weather again brings to our notice one of the crying wants of the college yard. While the authorities are hardly called upon to furnish the students with a patent Coggswell fountain, they assuredly ought to see that the pumps which grace our yard should be made to forsake their idleness, and become as useful as they have hitherto been ornamental. The student is at present scrupulously restrained from quenching his thirst, except at meal time, by any other means than by resorting to the opponents of the Harvard Total Abstinence Society. It is in the behalf...
...intellect of which it is the expression. And as the stream, choked by what it has collected, is stemmed and blocked, until the rains swell its torrent and burst the barrier; so the will, enslaved by its own surrender, frets impotently in its captivity, until the rain of grace from heaven floods the heart and sets it at liberty. For a free man, because he is free, may make himself a slave; but once a slave, because he is a slave, he cannot make himself free. Perhaps in this way we may be able to reconcile individual liberty with universal...
...towards the high table. In front, the Boar's head is borne aloft, while the choir give the old song, "The boar's head in hand I bring, bedecked with rue and rosemary." S. Black, of Queen's, undertook the solo, which he rendered very well. We believe His Grace the Archbishop of York on one occasion bore the same part. The ceremony concludes with the distribution of holly and other green stuff by the Provost to those who are nearest the eastern end of the Hall. On New Year's Day, another ancient custom prevails in this College...
...crew has been told to give special attention to the recover: to slow up gradually when coming forward. This is a very difficult thing to do, for it demands absolutely perfect control of the body. The men back of number seven have not yet attained the ease and grace which characterizes an efficient oarsman. Those from number two to number six do not always swing directly over the keel. The following individual faults were noticed last Friday. Number one had his arms bent on the "full reach," number two used his slide, bent his arms too soon after the catch...