Word: lots
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...then laid on the rests to rot. The University Boat-House was kept, at the expense of all, for the use of a few patient fellows, who were trained and scolded and worked, and then beaten. To afford cheap rowing for all another boat-house was built, and another lot of boats bought (or rather taken, for I believe they are not yet paid for), and the club system inaugurated. The club members had to pay, in addition to their subscriptions to the crew, a good deal of money for the privilege of rowing in very poorly kept boats...
...MORE complete victory than the one gained at Springfield, on Saturday, Harvard could not ask. The choice of position which fell to Harvard's lot was much more than balanced by the very rough water which came in answer to Yale's prayers; there was not a foul or an accident to detract from the brilliant success of the race as a race, and the relative positions of the two boats for the whole four miles kept the interest of the spectators at the highest pitch throughout. The race was won not by luck or by chance...
...Crew, defeated Yale in the third game of the series, and placed Harvard the champion at the bat as well as at the oar. The Nine deserve our thanks for the pleasure and satisfaction which each student feels in the remarkable victories which have fallen to Harvard's lot this year. The Nine owe as much to their Captain, Mr. Thayer, as the Crew owe to Mr. Bancroft, and we are glad that both these gentlemen have won the victories which their pains have so justly deserved...
...spent part of my spring vacation on the sea-shore, at my uncle's. It was cold and bleak; but I had quite a jolly time, because, you see, I've got a lot of cousins who live there, and I was the only male approaching their age for ten miles. Yes, I had a beautiful time. I used to talk philosophy to nineteen, and nonsense to twelve, and romance to sixteen; you see they acted as foils to each other, and when I was a little tired of one I would fall back on another, and then there were...
Freed from this nuisance, I try to get an idea of when my annuals come; an undertaking that requires me to crowd and push with a lot of others, in order to get a chance to see a notice which, when I do see it, tells me that my examinations all come in the same week. Highly gratified by this pleasing announcement, I go to lunch, to be entertained with the eternal talk about J. Cook and the Boston Transcript, the same remarks that I have heard every day for a week. By this time I am pretty well disgusted...