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...crews rowed pretty well within themselves at first, none of the strokes apparently trying for the lead, though it would perhaps have been the best policy for Holyoke, for the crew, not being well together, though made up of men in good training, could not possibly row a stern race, but might do very well with the encouragement of being ahead, and perhaps might discourage or unnerve the crews behind. It is a game not often successful, but is the only one to be tried in such a case. Cambridge tried it this year, and although...
...stern reality belies...
...book is also to be noticed, which is a rare merit in a work of this nature. The divinus afflatus has rarely inspired a man to indite odes to his mother-in-law, and almost as rarely does the gentle muse of poetry venture over into the stern and barren fields of philosophy. It has been said that Locke only needed rhyme to become a poet. We submit respectfully to the author the propriety of turning his work into a metrical form. To revel in a lyric on the "Complex Modes of Extension or Duration and Expansion as measured...
...enthusiastic President's expectation seems actually to have been realized. Thus far the greatest order and decorum have prevailed amongst the students (though the hall does not seem to have had so beneficial an effect upon the negroes), and the quizzical face of Nicholas Boylston and the stern countenance of John Adams have not yet been improved by the addition of a pat of butter. Indeed, if the moral improvement had not shown itself from the opening of the hall, the behavior of the students would have to be attributed to the lecture on table-etiquette, which was reported...
...rather, of turning out a good crew, may be resolved into one grand and simple element, and a few minor ones. The all important element is "tubbing"; a "tub" being a clinker-built boat about twelve feet long and four wide, with an experienced oarsman sitting in the stern, and two green hands, or otherwise, at the oars. I say "or 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...