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...into the thousands, would dare trust himself upon the raging and muddy Charles. Here and there a respectable single shell or working boat may be seen, but inquiry only elicits the information that they are the property of men who have chosen to draw upon their own purses rather than forego altogether their accustomed rowing. In the matter of oars the club is woefully deficient, Only a few pairs, and many of these not mates, are to be had for the pair-oared boats and for the singles. The only two four-oared working boats owned by the club...
...Privileges in government are like sciences, they grow rather than spring into existence at a single bound. Thus it has been with English liberties and the English Parliament. It is to the humble Witenagemote that the cause may be traced of the present influential gathering at Westminster...
...good players, and the series ought to develop a feeling of rivalry as great as that manifested in some of last spring's base-ball contests. Aside from the benefit that will accrue to some future 'varsity eleven, the class spirit which has lately found an outlet in the rather unsatisfactory rush will now be turned into a more legitimate channel, and will be a benefit rather than a detriment to the college. The energetic way in which the freshmen have set to work serves to show that eighty-nine will not be content with the bottom position...
...these columns, yet the sublime confidence shown by the students that its affairs will be managed, - and managed well - by somebody, calls for a word of warning. In the past the association has been extremely fortunate in its officers, yet this good fortune has been the result of chance rather than that of the exercise of any special forethought on the part of the members of the society. If in the future our track athletics are to be kept up to the standard of former years, we must continue to place men in control of them whose experience has fitted...
...following rather curious piece of composition was placed upon the blackboard at a teacher's institute, and a prize of a Webster's dictionary offered to any person who could read and pronounce every word correctly. The book was not carried off, however, as twelve was the lowest number of mistakes in pronunciation made...