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After dinner I sit down by a mast and study Herbert Spencer on Style. (N. B. I was conditioned in Rhetoric.) Presently a very common-looking man shouts out, "Stand by to hoist that Spencer." Thinking he refers to my book, I secrete it in my coat-pocket. Several sailors pull at a rope and a sail goes up. The men utter such discordant cries during the process that I go to the captain and complain. He tells me to telegraph to New York and have them dismissed. I ask him in what part of the ship the telegraph-office...
...which boat should bear the blame of the foul. No one can regret more than Harvard that he refused to order the race rowed over, which it was his plain duty to do, in accordance with Rule XII. It is worthy of mention, and is not, we think, generally known, that the Harvard crew preferred a petition to this effect with the judges, at the same time with their claim of foul, and before leaving their boat...
...Sophomores really think that the character or bearing which they disapprove in Freshmen will be corrected by the process of "hazing"; very few of them can be induced even by the authority of a College custom to violate their instincts as gentlemen by taking part in subjecting fellow-students to indignities. What is needed is that those who are above all participation in the annoyance of Freshmen should shake off the influence which hinders them from actively discountenancing all such practices...
...think the Rebellion-tree exceedingly beautiful, Miss Gray...
...Orient says, "There must be something wrong with a college when all its students say, upon graduating, 'I wish I had gone elsewhere.'" We are inclined to think that the verdict of insubordination and unwarranted rebellion so generally given by the press is not the only side of the question...