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...came the great dispute and struggle as to who should be qualified to row in the different crews. Motions were made, and amendment after amendment added. The presiding officer showed clearly a lack of decision and an ignorance of parliamentary rules which a few more years in college may correct, and was, just at this point, in a cheerful state of mental haziness as regarded what motions had been made, lost, or carried. It seemed as if order would never come out of this chaos. The only thing quite clear in all the motions and amendments was that Yale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOATING CONVENTION. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...expected than the II H Society will give two performances in the new Town Hall at Brookline, some time about the first of May. "Fra Diavolo," "Black-Eyed Susan," and the "Cup of Tea" are to be given...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...LITANY SERVICE is held by the St. Paul's Society daily through Lent at 6.45 P.M. except on Saturdays and Sundays. A lecture may be expected every Monday evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...know them by heart. But there are many who have never played chess who think it the very essence of stupidity for two persons to sit, one on each side of a table, looking in silence at each other and the board, and finally making a move. But chess may be played for pleasure as well as for mental exercise. We sometimes "knock up," as well as play a ball match; and it is quite as good fun for most...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CHESS. | 4/4/1873 | See Source »

...always discriminating in the objects of its attack? It is the peculiarity in a man most open to laughable roughing, not the one most deserving it, that receives the greatest share of this kind of criticism. It has come to such a pass that a timid and sensitive man may well be restrained from an action, perfectly good and praiseworthy in itself, but still a little out of the usual run, from fear of the consequent roughing. At any rate, he is obliged to consider beforehand "what the fellows will say about it." Thus independence is placed at a discount...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE OTHER SIDE. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »