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...rowing with about 16 inches of slide and have shortened the very long body reach which was used on the water last fall. The stroke is quick and there is not a suspicion of any hang at the full reach. On the whole the time of the crew is remarkable, the only break at all perceptible being between No. 5 and No. 6. This together with a raggedness in the length of slide taken by different men, owing probably to a change in the order without a corresponding change in the rigging, causes the crew at times...
...windows to see. It seems incredible to them that God should come down in all his pomp and glory upon the hills that clasp the homely landscape of their native village,- that he should work his wonders with the paltry material of their every-day life, that he should hang as fair diamonds of dew on Cambridge grass-blades as on their famous cousins of Mount Hermon. These autumn trees of ours that seem to have caught and kept the sunset in their branches till it looks as if a western evening-cloud had stretched itself in Fresh Pond meadows...
...hint offered by their daily walk as a point from which to wind off the yarn of their discourse, and at the same time supply the material for their spinning. Montaigne set the example of this method, though he commonly found in his library the peg on which to hang his inspired twaddle, and must have his wits shaken up and put in motion by stumbling over some jutting sentence in a book he was loitering through. Or sometimes it was a derangement in his own bodily economy that set his fancy going, and it is wonderful into what...
which does not hang upon the mercy of chance or of our likes and dislikes, but which if the last copy of it should perish would still live on, because it had transfused with its own divine vitality the intellect and heart of mankind...
Nothing very encouraging can be said of the junior crew as the men are rowing at present. They all hang badly and row short, though the men have been working together for a long time and have been on the river over a week...