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...informal race between the freshman and Union crews yesterday afternoon, the latter crossed the line winners by about three-fourths of a boat-length. The freshmen pulled pluckily and in good form, although showing up rather poor at the start. The course was a mile and a quarter in length, from the Brookline bridge to the Union boat house. Included among the spectators were a number of prominent sporting men from Boston...
Hence the money consideration, even if it were a weighty one, must soon be confined to boating. The expenditure of energy is certainly not an unmixed evil, some men are rather the better for it. There's many a lazy boy who has come to college and lost his inertness through the rivalry of college sports and gone out from his alma mater an energetic man, wholly through the influence of his efforts in the athletic arena...
...first long run of the season is appointed for Saturday next. The meet will start at one o'clock from in front of University and will endeavor to make Plymouth that night. The distance, about forty-five miles, is rather long for an afternoon's ride; but aided by the moonlight there seems no reason why the club should not reach its destination between eight and nine that evening. The return trip will be made on Sunday, leaving Plymouth about ten A. M. All who desire to go will please send in their names to No. 1 Holworthy before Saturday...
...three leading colleges and greatly increase their requirements so that the smaller colleges shall offer preliminary instruction to the larger, or else all the present American colleges must be preparatory to a higher university, yet to be established. We much prefer the former; the present education, however, rather tends towards the latter...
...enough; but he was not one of those boys who can be called "merry fellows." Whilst he edited his magazine he used to stupefy his fags by his prodigious capacity for work. Most of his writings were calm in language, and breathe a conservative spirit; they also evince a rather nervous preoccupation on the part of the writer as to what his readers will think of them. The words "Benevolent Public," "Potent Dispenser of Fame," etc., recur very frequently. The graver pieces are those in which he displays most force; in humorous passages his pen does not run with...