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...Francisco Post tells how a crew of amateur oarsmen were taken in and done for. The boys were waiting for a belated member of the crew, when a well-dressed and modest young stranger strolled into the boathouse and began to inspect the equipments with great interest. This is the way it turned...
...have been interested in looking over a list of questions discussed at Harvard in ante-revolutionary times by candidates for the degree of Master of Arts. As early as 1743, Samuel Adams chose the question, "Is it lawful to resist the supreme magistrate, if the commonwealth cannot otherwise be preserved?" He argued that it was lawful, and thirty years later he stood first in advocating such measures. In 1765 Elbridge Gerry, who became one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, answered the following question in the affirmative: "Can the new prohibitory duties, which make it useless...
...English Universities four-fifths of the students enter earnestly into athletic sports, because each man recognizes its physical utilities to himself. The true interest of a young man engaged in college training is very small in which beats of two nines picked from rival institutions, but almost wholly in whether he is himself developing and conserving the physical resources which carry him through a long and useful life...
There will be no junior class dinner. The project has fallen through from lack of interest on the part of the class, though 44 out of the required 50 names were put down...
Second round. Blodgett opened the round with hard and quick hitting, which told on Faulkner considerably, but he displayed so much science in defense that he soon payed Blodgett back with interest. Hard and quick hitting marked the fighting throughout the round...