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With an undulating motion...
After the election of officers Mr. Wright took the chair, and general business was discussed. A motion was made by Mr. Hooper, '80, and seconded, that an executive committee, consisting of the three officers of the Association, and of eight members selected by the officers from the four classes, two from each class, should have charge of the Association, and fix the time and place of the meetings; the eight members from the four classes to serve as stewards. The motion was carried without much debate, and the meeting adjourned...
...BRETHREN: These old familiar strains have set us in easy motion. The Spaniards have a proverb that 'leaving home is half the journey,' so much do they make of the start. But you are already on the threshold, and Harvard pilgrims, like those of Canterbury of long centuries ago, are quick to entertain themselves. Different men find many different attractions in a time like this, but I think we shall all of us agree that one of them, at least, is its evenness. The scales, elsewhere ascending and descending with great abruptness, here come to a quiet poise...
...honorably withdraw from a race after what had passed, but if they were going to do so, it had better be at once than later. He concluded by proposing a ballot to decide on the general feeling of the class, of which a large majority was present. The motion was carried, and, a ballot being taken, it was decided by a large majority, and, upon reconsideration, unanimously, to row against Cornell, and support the crew. The meeting was then adjourned...
...Every motion as light...