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...vice reformed by the site of beautiful columns, and is Harvard such a den of iniquity that it requires a new chapel to pull it out of the mire? Students may at times seem obstreperous and unruly but beyond that "Heniso't qui mal y pense...
...second crew, however, was shifted in startling fashion. Only one actual replacement took place, Howe supplanting Scudder, but the rigging of the boat was altered so that Saltonstall, rugged number 7 man could set the stroke and still pull a starboard...
...right . . . keep that line and walk up. . . . Bring up that 12 horse. . . . Back, four. . . . Step back, I tell you. . . . All right, Jimmy, bring him up. . . . The Salmon horse . . . Eddy, get that 12 horse by the bridle and pull him up. . . .All right, hold it . . . hold it ... spread out there...
...graceful, low-leaning "S" boats with their big spread of canvas, the shorter "Victory" boats (single-masted crafts with self-bailing cockpits, easy to handle in rough weather), the midget "Fish" and "Star" classes, 15-footers in which yachtmen's young sons and younger daughters dabble and pull ropes and get wet-soon these, and all the other bright pleasure craft of the Sound will be brought out of boathouses and moored at the ends of private jetties, ready for summer racing. Bronzed Captain "Juggy" Nelson, who was in charge of the races, said that he liked...
...additional taxes by a "capital levy" (bearing chiefly on the rich); and the Right, which called for the enactment of "indirect taxes" (affecting all classes). As the budget stands, the expenditure estimates of many departments have been scaled so low that it is doubtful if they can actually pull through the year on the sums allowed them...