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...occur to us: the closing of the boat house on Saturdays at five o'clock, - the only day for long afternoon pulls and excursions on the river; and the permitting of any one class to have the boats, as in the case of the Freshmen last autumn, for class scratch races. Any mixture of class and club feeling is contrary to the spirit of the club organization and creates ill-feeling...
...daub of paint over the bourgeois figure. Not that the book-learning acquired is superficial, - it is usually sound and thorough, - but the relation of this culture to the man generally is at best merely that of a coat of paint. Nor is it merely a case of scratch a Russian and find a Tartar, for the oil of the paint corrodes and spoils the bourgeois beneath. No bourgeois needs to be told that he is as good as the next man and a good deal better, and though as poeta nascitur, etc., a man can't make himself...
...convenience of reference we give below the names of crews and the time made by the winners in the Fall Scratch Races. Course one mile...
...otherwise," for even the members of the 'Varsity are tubbed up to the day of the race. When a man is given up as hopeless, he may amuse himself by going down the river in an eight or a four; but if a man in a scratch eight shows any approach to good form, rescue him, at once, and put him to tubbing. One great reason why boating has not been even more of a success at Harvard is that the boat, though rowed by good men, is not necessarily rowed by the best; for many men, who never touch...
...Spring Scratch Races of the H. U. B. C. were rowed over the Boat House course, Saturday, May 17. The single scull race was easily won by W. F. Weld, Jr., '76, with D. C. Bacon, '76, a bad second. For the double race there were two entries: F. S. Watson and F. R. Appleton, and C. W. Wetmore and W. Hartwell, all of '75. Hartwell had the misfortune to break his rudder near the start, and the other men came in first with a very pretty stroke. The six-oar race was a very good one. Only two crews...