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...cost which we find to our surprise in the undergraduates of the present day, would we act so very differently after all? Would we not be charmed as of old by big, useless muscles in the men of our college class who practice daily at the dumb-bells, and prefer unwieldy giants to smaller men with muscles less startling but far greater will-power to punish themselves in the contest? And when it came to preparations for a boat-race against a college with which rivalry, if not exactly deadly, was a tradition of long standing, would...
...freshmen from the New London race will not check the importance that is now attached to this crew, as they have already under advisement one or two races in which they will enter, provided they do not row in the proposed triangular race; but, of course, they would much prefer to row the Harvard freshmen than any other crew, for reasons stated. College athletics, as seen in the recently formed base-ball league, and even last Saturday, in the harmonious foot-ball convention, have assumed a more manly and straightforward spirit. Why should there be an exception in the case...
...belongs to some Club where members, manners, opinions, expenditures, are all to his taste, will confine himself almost altogether to that club, or, if I may so use the phrase, the active membership of the proposed University Society will consist of those students who prefer loafing in public to loafing in private in some friends room, of those professors who have time to give to the club, and of those students who come to meet the professors...
...innumeri reportores et interviewores newspaperum. Lowellus - unus, ut tuns immortalis Chuzzlewit dixit, "notissimorum hominum in hac republica" - speechificavit speechum non malum; et Clivarius Wendell Holmesius cepit opportunitatem recitare, longum poema, concoctum pro occasione; sed nenter horum erat in Latino, gratiae ad coelum! Non sumus mors-super Latino bic. Prefer amus linguam Americanam, vel, ut vos prave dicitis, Anglicam...
...attractive. The original form was Cor-Cor-Cor-nell! I yell! Cornell! but to this an addition is very frequently made to cause it to run Cor-Cor-Cor-nell! I yell - like - H-ll! Cor-nell! It is needless to add that the female members of the university prefer it as it stood originally. - Yale News...