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...sarcasm. It is unfair to complain if men, who have devoted their energies during three years to the interests of boating, should at last feel they have something else that claims their attention. The tendency among undergraduates to-day is to leave to a handful of men the task of sustaining the honor of the College on the field and on the river, while the rest, from their seats on the grand stand, applaud the gladiators when victorious. The result of this tendency is naturally felt in such a moment as the present. There are apparently few men to replace...
...getting up the book must have been considerable, and it shows that the author has an unusual amount of business ability. It is no small undertaking to write a handbook of a city like Boston, and the author is to be congratulated on his enterprise in undertaking the task and his success in accomplishing...
...what is called a boating-man, that is, I saunter down to the club-house every afternoon, select a shell, and try to select an oar - oarful task - from the buttonless, broken-bladed specimens now on exhibition; then I venture out for an hour's pull, returning in time to take a shower-bath, to dress, and to arrive at Memorial Hall about six o'clock. By that time the rare beef has all disappeared, and the waiters are generally hidden behind that mysterious screen where there are so many "evidences of things known, but unseen...
...second time since we have been connected with this paper, the pleasant task devolves upon us of expressing our thanks to the Crew and the Nine for the double victories they have won for the honor of Fair Harvard. We felt confident our Crew would win a victory at New London, but such a victory was considered hardly within the range of possibility. Complaints are made that the race was not close enough to be exciting, and that it is a pity Yale did not have a stronger crew. The race, to be sure, afforded little excitement to the average...
...Freshman Nine played this season was with the AEtnas of Newport, R. I., on Wednesday, April 10, on Holmes Field. The Freshmen won the game by a score of 37 to 2, making only one error. If reports are accurate, the men of '81 will have a much harder task to beat the Yale Freshmen...