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...courses, and, generally speaking, is found harder. The Satires of Juvenal are more powerful, and perhaps less amusing, than those of Horace. In reading the Georgics, it is proposed to investigate the peculiarities and difficulties of Virgil's style more thoroughly than can be done in schools, where he often receives - most illogically - the name of an easy author. If a student prefers to omit this course, Tacitus and Juvenal are usually read in the later years to fully as great advantage. All these courses contain a large element of poetry. Course 5, on the other hand, is exclusively prose...
...Holyoke, for the crew, not being well together, though made up of men in good training, could not possibly row a stern race, but might do very well with the encouragement of being ahead, and perhaps might discourage or unnerve the crews behind. It is a game not often successful, but is the only one to be tried in such a case. Cambridge tried it this year, and although she did not win, she certainly came near breaking up the time of the Oxford boat during the first mile, and might have succeeded had there been a less steady, cool...
...knew, there was but one other American on board besides myself, and he was of that kind of whom we often read, but fortunately seldom meet. The days were not long enough for him to recount the wonders he had seen and done, and all with the most utter contempt of probability and disregard of grammar. He had recently been married, - for the second or third time I should judge, - and had his wife, a blooming maiden of twenty or so, with him, and as he was between fifty-five and sixty himself, he was conducting himself as absurdly...
...that the Annuals have begun, the College year is practically over as far as athletic sports are concerned; for the body, on whose development especial care has been bestowed for many months, is now often almost entirely neglected in the eager effort to review a year's work in a few days. It does not seem out of place, therefore, to look back on the history of those associations which have been founded among us with the design of promoting physical development, in order to see how many of their early promises they have redeemed...
...afores Law, appointed for the Dinner on Saturdays, and this Article is now risen to a very high Price, and through the great scarcity of Salt will probably be still higher, the Steward shall not be obliged to provide Salt-Fish, but shall procure Fresh-fish as often as he can. The above Regulations to be in force till further Orders, the afores 9th Law of Chap- 6 notwithstanding...