Word: impressiveness
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Dates: during 1880-1880
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...arguments against intercollegiate boatraces between crews of Freshmen, as presented in your paper of the 12th and 26th November, appear to me unanswerable. They are the same arguments which some of us "old boys" of Yale have taken pains to impress upon several successive generations of new-comers, until at last their further reiteration seems unnecessary. Ever since 1875, when Harvard's representatives consented to the establishment of an annual eight-oared Harvard-Yale race, the unvarying custom of the Yale Boat Club has been to concentrate all its resources on that race; and this policy has now hardened into...
...life is short. But it 's long enough to have some events crowded into it that don't impress even the casual observer as trivial. Such an event has just made its mark on the Fresh - no, Sophomore page of my life. I have taken the Second-Year Honor Examinations; and the results are - well, I say to the public generally very gratifying, but to myself I acknowledge that some surprise is mixed with my gratification. Now, the thing that I have been puzzling my brains over is, why I should be surprised. In a University where the curve...