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The present system has many 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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ROOMS. | 4/24/1874 | See Source »

The arguments on either side seemed irrefutable. Yet to have the University crew row at the class races would certainly improve and add interest to races that are notoriously in need of improvement. Since it has now been decided finally that these men are not to row on their class...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A SUGGESTION. | 2/27/1874 | See Source »

A resolution was passed expressing disapproval of intercollegiate literary contests; but inasmuch as there was a difference of opinion as to the object of the convention, and it was thought by many that it might be intended to discuss in general the advisability of the proposed contests, it was voted...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

Nov. 22. - Wind (blowing a gale), N. S. by W. E. Off Blackwell's Island. Cheered by resident Cubans. Run fifteen bells in four hours, and at five knots pipe to dinner. Speak a ferryboat from Holmes Hole, short of provisions; give them a barrel of salt for ballast, and...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ODS BODIKINS! | 12/5/1873 | See Source »

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