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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...bring victory to their side. Moreover, they have three of last year's crew, and their winter practice has put them in good form already. Hardly as much can be said of our crew. Their feathering is fair, but they do not use their legs well, being more or less unsteady, and the port is noticeably worse than the starboard. The reinforcement of Mr. Brigham caused some changes in positions which necessarily makes the whole crew a little uneven in movement at first; these are faults, however, which, under their excellent coach and with practice on the river, ought soon...
...marks; if this change be too radical, let rank depend upon daily work. And the names of those whom the Faculty wished to honor could be printed on "rank-lists," not arranged in the order of one-twelfth of a per cent, but alphabetically. Then we might hear less about "leading" the class, and more about men who have clear ideas upon important topics of the times; we might have fewer bookworms and more students; and we might have a larger attendance at University concerts and lectures. Should we not, by such a change, gain in average standing, and would...
...annual concert of the Pierian Sodality to be given in Lyceum Hall on the evening of the 16th has a special claim on our patronage; for while all our other organizations are more or less independent of college support, the Pierian has only this resource. Nor is there any better way to raise the low appreciation of music at Harvard than to encourage by our presence the few who have a taste for music and seek to create it in others. Moreover, the concert this year promises some unusually good features. Besides the dance after the concert, Mr. Van Raalte...
...they 'd fain walk to Cambridge, - nothing less...
...black eye or a broken head. A few nights ago about THIRTY of the boys went to Boston to attend a party, and concluded to walk home. On the way they encountered an amiable policeman, who, after a brief discussion with them on the subject of making less noise, waded in, and with club, revolver, and fist, put the whole party to rout. They claim that they were only singing a little ditty, but he swears that they were drunk. - From a St. Louis Paper...