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The following comments on the personnel of the Harvard crew are given : "Curtis, slender, intellectual of countenance, as becomes a true Bostonian, who proved last year that a man may lack avoirdupois, wear eye-glasses, and yet row a splendid race, sets the crew a beautiful stroke. Behind him the...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD, YALE, COLUMBIA. | 6/23/1882 | See Source »

But it is argued that food has gone up. Everything costs more, especially meat. The remedy is to have less meat, but have that little well cooked. The meat is not so bad when bought, probably, but it is ruined in the cooking. The reason that it costs so much...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/21/1882 | See Source »

As we have before remarked, some of the shorter poems have serious faults, but they are only natural ones that experience would surely remove. In general there is a healthy imagery, a delicious freedom from that morbid, sickly perversion of aestheticism that is so much sought after by writers of...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: "EXETER, SCHOOL DAYS AND OTHER POEMS." | 6/20/1882 | See Source »

One of the many excellent customs that still survive at Harvard is that of every senior's giving books to the library before he leaves. This is a custom to which we wish to call the attention of every member of '82. Every man desires to leave something behind him...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 6/16/1882 | See Source »

It is well nigh impossible to criticise the style and form of the Yale crew. All the teachings of "Bob" Cook have been thrown to the wind, and in their place we have the "Hillsdale" stroke. Swing there is none, and all that is aimed at is a fast stroke...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE CREWS. | 6/13/1882 | See Source »