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Yale. - The average weight of the Yale Eight is 165 3/4 lbs., against an average of 176 1/4 lbs. for our crew. They will have a new coxswain this year, as Aldrich has grown too heavy. There are four men from last year's crew in their boat, while we have seven in ours...
...often pretend to like college life, and to believe in it when they really think it a sham. I for one have grown thoroughly tired of this "college life," and I think four years at Harvard quite if not more than enough...
...following cheerful prophecy appears in the columns of the Yale Lit: "'Lampy' has deserted us; he is grown up now, but, if we are not mistaken, he will return a wiser and a sadder fool...
...seems to me that it is about time that something should be said in defence of that much-maligned creature the proctor. The violent censure and scathing sarcasm that have been hurled upon his defenceless head for weeks past have entirely destroyed his nervous system. He has grown prematurely old. I dare say that a close observer could detect a few straggling gray hairs in his head. No more do we hear the sound of the "squeaking boots" ; his manly tread is silenced. 'T is pitiful to see him moping on the corners with his brothers, or sitting with...
...Here's the head of a full grown idiot," said the old man, eagerly, "and here's a celebrated thief and liar, I don't know but what you knew...