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...climate, as to his pertinacity in carrying out whatever he undertakes. Men in England will train honestly for a month at least before the day of the sports for which they enter. They will give up smoking, drinking, and late hours, and will do every day what they know they must do in order to secure a place. Who is there at Harvard that ever trained a month for our Athletic Field Sports? It has been often said that there is no necessity of training much, because no one does it; but this is now an excuse of the past...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ATHLETICS AT OXFORD. | 10/26/1877 | See Source »

...boat, the machine-like action stops, the boat glides up to the float, out come the oars, and eight hearty-looking fellows after them, - fellows full of life and spirits, health and strength, who have taken an hour from their studies because they enjoy the exercise, because they know it does them good, and because they know that when they sit down to their books again, they will study with redoubled vigor...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A VISIT TO THE BOAT-HOUSE. | 10/26/1877 | See Source »

...suppose it is one of those funny alphas privative that don't mean anything sometimes, is n't it? You see," complainingly, "when I'd finished Homer, I could n't read any more Greek on account of my eyes, so I don't know as much as I ought...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: LA FEMME SAVANTE. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

...wood, while those in Holyoke are plastered. Grant, however, that the new iron staircase is desirable, which we do not attempt to deny, if the College can afford to make a useful improvement in one building, then, a fortiori, it can afford to make indispensable improvements in others. We know we speak to deaf ears, but it is better to be a Cassandra than no prophet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

Desire from duty, but shall make me know...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TRUE LOVE. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »