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COMPARATIVELY few undergraduates are aware that there are in the possession of the College two fine cups which were intended to be put up yearly as prizes for the boat-races. One of them, the Beacon Cup, was gained, long ago, from the Union Boat Club, and has since remained with Harvard. It was contested for, during a number of years, by the Class crews, and is now covered with the names of its winners. The other was presented by graduates - whence its name - in 1872, and was meant to be the principal prize in our annual races. For several...
...many put their groates in a pool...
...mention these facts, not from any wish to prove that the "bad air" of our Harvard recitation-rooms is of no account, but rather to show that there are students who can put up with a state of things that to us, fortunately, is intolerable. Happily our "shady side" is not that we live "hermetically sealed...
...What time did you say it was?" anxiously asked the old man. "Bless me! and I haven't made anything this afternoon. Did you put that valise anywhere? O yes." And mournfully and quickly he glided out, and closed the door gently behind him, as before...
...however unfriendly a reception may be accorded to the organ-grinder within these classic precincts, in less cultured yards he is sure of an enthusiastic and appreciative audience who drink in the charms of music and monkey with open mouths. Put him in front of a bay-window, with a couple of babies looking out in the seventh heaven of ecstasy, and a nurse to take off his hat to, and to lavish his most winning smile upon, and it will be hard to find a more contented being than Signor Smitherini. He knows that he is inspiring...