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...Marathon" off Boston Light, just from Europe, or scudding (with the lee scuppers under water and every inch of canvas set) under the brow of formidable forts, past the Halcyon, the Romance, or the Brenda, form an agreeable diversion to the ordinary routine of strict application to a stated task...
WRITING for the College papers is often a difficult task, as subjects of general interest are not always to be found. This difficulty is usually surmounted by the discovery of some cause for complaint, or else by the suggestion of some great project which is recommended to the reader as most worthy to be carried...
...Annual Reports of the President and Treasurer having just appeared, I have attempted to present some of their most interesting features to the readers of the Crimson, hoping that the difficulty of the task of condensation has not obliged me to do injustice to the ability and experience which are displayed in these reports. The condition of the University in almost every department seems to be highly encouraging, and there is a tone of energy and hopefulness in these reports which ought to increase our respect for the government of our Alma Mater...
...shall not be suspected of any wish to palliate any real blunder made by Mr. Allen or by any one else. But when editors of respectable magazines admit into them articles of which the chief aim appears to be a slur at Harvard College, they should see that the task is properly done, - for their own credit. Harvard's will take care of itself...
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