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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...best plan that can be followed: There are several fellows, who have been here a year or more and who have pulled during that time, who it is thought would be willing, if asked by the class, to choose a number of men, train them during the winter, and teach them all that can be learned on the rowing weights. When the spring comes, the trainer might take them on the river, going himself as coxswain, and assign to them their positions in the boat as should seem to him best. As soon as the crew are fairly at work...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE FRESHMAN CREW. | 12/19/1873 | See Source »

...portion of the chain. Gypsy damsels, varying in age from one hundred and two, to seven, desire to tell our fortunes. Freshman selects prettiest; her opposite fastens on to us. While our particular hag prates about "the dark young woman who is coming across the water," Freshman attempts to teach the pretty Zuleka to smoke a cigarette. Zuleka coy, but asks Freshman for a chew. All waltz. Knapsacks not so heavy as they were. Take greased-lightning express at next village. Find ourselves going the wrong way. Don't care. Arrive home 11.30. Mangled by pet bull-dog. Four hundred...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MARRY, COME UP! | 11/21/1873 | See Source »

...courses of instruction in science were given in the College this vacation, - one at the Botanic Gardens, the other at Boylston Hall. Both were courses of laboratory instruction, intended to prepare persons to teach science experimentally in schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Brevities. | 9/25/1873 | See Source »

...claim that the discipline of the Classics is overrated, that it is no more adapted to the fullest development of every mind than is the discipline derived from any other single branch of study: hence they would institute the elective course. Absurd. They cannot have read Walker, who would teach the pedlers and peasants Latin and Greek; or Stuart and Jones, whose arguments will convince any man that there is more discipline in the study of the particle yap than of all the Mathematics in existence...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A PLEA FOR THE CLASSICS. | 5/2/1873 | See Source »

With such a schoolmistress to teach...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SCHOOLMISTRESS. | 3/21/1873 | See Source »

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