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Great many young ladies aboard. In my new suit and tall hat fancy I shall make quite an impression. While I am thinking about my lost baggage, a man in brass buttons rushes up on deck and exclaims loudly, "Port, two pints." Have heard there is much drinking on board ship. Wonder if this is the way to order liquor. Watch the man carefully, but do not see any one bring him anything, although several men replied, "Ay, ay, sir." He does not seem disappointed, but walks off humming the "Blue Danube...
...course, nuts and raisins. Am disgusted with a man opposite me who helps himself twice to everything. He leans over to me and says, "I wish I could eat as much as you do; my appetite is never good on board ship." I take no notice of him, and make no reply. He does n't seem to mind it much. Such people never know when they are rebuked...
...form of the referee's decision is indefensible, involving a strained interpretation of Rule XIV., which would make it impossible ever to allow a claim of foul. Practically, however, this is of no account, as the position given to Yale, and the referee's testimony as to the courses of the boats at the moment of the foul, are a clear indication of his opinion as to which boat should bear the blame of the foul. No one can regret more than Harvard that he refused to order the race rowed over, which it was his plain duty...
...fully indorse the position taken by the Captain of our crew in refusing the challenge of Yale, and the ground which he took for that refusal. Claims of intentional foul we do not propose to make, nor shall we revert to any disputed questions of fact to sustain the position taken by Harvard. The two following facts are clearly established, and are amply sufficient to justify the ground taken by Captain Goodwin in his reply to the Yale challenge...
...conclusion, we would recommend an early convention of the Colleges to make arrangements of avoiding the mistakes of the last...