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...success of the plan will depend upon the hearty co-operation of every student. If all will take right hold of boating now, this fall, and put it through vigorously, we can soon find ourselves enjoying a healthier, manlier, and cheaper pastime than smoking cigarettes in the doorway of Holyoke or playing billiards at Parker...
...GRADUATES OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY, - This is your day. I will not, as I ought not, take up any part of this valuable time. You will therefore excuse me, I am sure, if I take my seat after saying, in the briefest way, the formal words, I assure you that I have a very grateful appreciation of this hearty greeting. I know, I know, how little it is deserved. God grant that during the remainder of my term I may be able to do something to deserve...
...oars is the captain, Mr. Bancroft. His earnest labors, his close attention to the needs of each man, his deep study of methods of rowing, won for him the entire confidence of the crew, and it was his confidence, together with his nerve and coolness, which enabled him to take the race into his own hands at the start and keep it there until the finish. The effect that our victory ought to, and will, have is an increased interest in boating at Harvard, and the success of this year will be but a stronger incentive to work...
...contrast to the care of rooms in the College buildings. While the duty of the College domestic seems to be the spreading of dust at an equal depth all over the room, the servants in Beck work as if they had seen good furniture before, and knew how to take care of it. Any one who has seen the interior of rooms in that building will acknowledge that a degree of cleanliness is there maintained which is unknown in Weld, Matthews, or Holworthy...
Before he had reached Athens, the sub-Freshman was met by students who urged or compelled him to join the classes of that professor whose partisans they were, - a proceeding which reminds one of the way which the Yale students take to recruit their Freshman societies. The factions often came to blows over the merits of rival instructors, but the most serious rows were between town and gown, - for the students of "the fair metropolis of the world of mind" then strove with as much eagerness as the students of the metropolis of America now strive to make their occupation...