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...this year you have been a boy. It was thought proper, and very rightly, too, that you should be launched into the world with a set of principles which would make you a valuable member of society; and these principles were instilled into you in a very strong and somewhat exaggerated from. But from this year you will become a man of the world. And one of the first lessons which you must learn is that a man of the world is never intolerant. To use an old definition of mine, he is never surprised and never shocked...
...start was a very even one, both crews taking the water at the same instant, but Holyoke shot ahead about half a length on a spurt, pulling a clean, powerful stroke of about thirty-five to the minute, while Matthews did not go over thirty-two, and splashed somewhat. A strong ebb-tide troubled the Matthews crew the most, as they had the outside, but there was a lot of muscle in their stroke, and Holyoke was unable to shake them off, so that at the stake there was still only half a length between the noses...
...subject is somewhat complicated, I shall attempt merely to bring forward a single strong argument, which seems to me clearly to settle the question...
...interest to support the undertaking will be forthcoming. The sport is excellently adapted for this season of the year, and it should be remembered the weather will not hold this way forever. We hear that at Yale a rifle club has been formed, and there is a prospect - somewhat faint at present, but a prospect, nevertheless - of a shooting-match next spring between the two colleges. This should act as an incentive to all those who shoot: last year we saw how rapid the improvement was, when the practice of the club was regular. We hope a target will...
...much trouble, and has wasted time which could as well have been saved, therefore both papers have determined that next fall subscriptions shall be paid at the time they are made. The new system will not, we believe, cause our subscribers any inconvenience, and it will greatly simplify the somewhat complicated state of our books. The paper has been in existence, now, for three and a half years, and during that time we have lost something like two hundred dollars on subscribers' bills. It is plain that had the plan which we intend now to inaugurate been put into operation...