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...neared the upper drift, I could not keep down a growing feeling of uneasiness. I made Elsie keep quiet under pretence of listening to a noise from the top; and when we rose to the level of the black opening I strained eye and ear to catch some sign of what Colney was doing. All was dark and silent, however; and I was just heaving a sigh of relief as we rose to the top of the opening, when, quick as a serpent's tongue, a spade-handle, with a long knife lashed to the end, darted...
Then we began to go up again, and very fast, I doubt not, although we seemed hardly to move at all, as I watched the spot of sky above, and bent every particle of will-power on trying to keep aching arms and numb fingers from relaxing their hold on the rope. I hope that I shall never again suffer the agony of those few moments. They seemed hours. Once, I thought I should have to give in; but I looked down at little Elsie, who was twined around me, with her quivering hands clasped about my neck...
...always, as they say, be more efficient, better able to give and take, more persistent, more sensible of duty to the work itself, and, above all, better able to manage men, that first secret of fortune in almost all departments of life. The graduates, they declare, even if they keep shops or supervise building yards or manage ranches in Colorado, always try for the biggest things, and see far better than merely experienced men to what their work may lead, and what is the most reasonably probable road to success. Moreover, argue these men, descending into slang, the graduates afloat...
Therefore, while we are disposed to look with favor upon the idea of inter-collegiate regattas as furthering the cause of boating in other colleges, we are compelled to keep ourselves out of such races, for the reason that our interests lie in other quarters, and that our important races with Yale and Columbia occupy all the attention that the college can well devote to inter-collegiate rowing contests...
...such a purpose. Many of the new ones are being placed in the Union Gymnasium, Boston, and in the gymnasiums at Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Cornell and Amherst, which are being fitted on his plan, under his supervision. Thus Harvard, with the best building in the country, neglects to keep in the forefront of progress in physical culture, and remains stationary, while smaller institutions take advantage of new ideas. The government of Harvard seems to think that a thing once done is done forever, seems to forget that there is such a thing as steady progress." All of which should...