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That the luscious juice may flow...
...story is authentic, as the tomb may be seen, as told in the story, in the town after which this poem is named...
...physical injury in the boat-racing, yet "lads," as he calls them, are wasting their time, if they consider that the great object of this three years' stay at the University is to make themselves accomplished watermen. Before ending with a prayer that what is really an amusement may not become a profession, he says: "The University ideal should be as high as possible. To hold up success in examination as the natural end of three years' exertion, is a very questionable doctrine; but it is still worse when athletic competition comes to stand upon the same level of popular...
...these men to make application for the rooms he wishes to have; and, in case one of his friends is fortunate enough to get them, he, of course, has them immediately transferred to himself. Thus the man, who has application made for him in this way, though he may already have a very fair room, has many chances over a man who, unblessed with numerous friends, has perhaps no room at all, or, at most, a very uncomfortable one. That this is a real and not a fancied grievance, any one can see by recalling the number of his acquaintances...
...advantages over all the others that have been tried, and, with this one exception, does not offer the slightest ground for complaint. This one fault, it seems to me, could be remedied by a very simple provision. It is generally acknowledged that the men are truthful, however much they may be wanting in other virtues, and, if this is really the case, the virtue might be utilized in this way: on each form used in the application for rooms, a line or two might be printed to the effect that the applicant desired, for his own occupation, the rooms named...