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...form of the 'Varsity,' and we feel assured that if the present conscientious training is continued, the College need feel no doubt of the result of the race with Yale. As to the class crews, they are all well under way, and, judging from present appearances, the race this spring will be most exciting. The Freshmen, in particular, are doing well, and if they maintain a unanimity of feeling amongst themselves and pay careful attention to their duty, there is no possible reason why they should not win in their race with Columbia. Of course it is impossible...
Then comes a faded rose, a Jacqueminot, and the disease takes this phase: "This rose I had from Kate. She was the most grandly beautiful woman I ever saw; we met at Baltimore, during that Southern trip I took last spring, when the Faculty thought best, - you remember. I never appreciated Byron till I saw her. No cold hard outlines, but the rounded form of a Venus; the rich red blood of the South shining through the clear, olive-tinted skin. She was not one of those hoydenish creatures that one meets here, but seemed surrounded by an atmosphere...
PROFESSOR LANE'S exhaustive Latin Grammar will be published in the spring...
...flowers are dead, the Spring hath gone...
...found in Hall's "College Words and Customs," published here in 1856. Now, as Mr. Black himself says, "The college vocabulary is very slowly enlarged, . . . but once let a phrase become firmly established, and it is immortal." Such a convenient general word would scarcely have had time to spring up and die since 1856. The best of our original words is doggy, a very expressive term, which - with the noun dog, derived from it - is almost unknown out of Cambridge...