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...close of second half-hour, Harvard three goals and three touch-downs; Yale nothing...
Game at close of first half-hour, Harvard two goals and one touch-down; Yale nothing...
...preceding one. Thus the time of the winning four-oared crew in the fall of '74 was 16 min. 36 3/4 sec., in the spring of '75, 14 min. 59 1/2 sec., and this fall 15 min. 8 1/2 sec., - showing a difference of nearly a minute and a half between the time of the first and last race. Of the four clubs all but one has furnished a winning second crew; Holworthy taking the first race, Weld the second, and Holyoke the third...
...most of our public associations are constituted, an executive committee of half a dozen members have full power to decide almost every question that can arise. Even when they do appeal to the College for instruction, men are afraid to open a discussion, and motions are generally passed with only a few words said in their support, - passed sometimes, it seems, solely because the ayes are called first. The absolute power of this oligarchy is of course our own fault, but its real cause is our diffidence about public speaking, which represses all public manifestations of interest in our affairs...
...love you for the half-drawn sigh...