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...discover this. If they escape it, they will not only be happy, but very lucky. Their success is generously hoped for; but old heads in the business who have had their full of experience, and who are old-fashioned enough to believe that training is necessary to success, think they have a bigger job before them than they realize...
...matter of its acceptance was very widely discussed. There was a large element opposed to acceptance, and with reason. The desire, however, to make Harvard understand that Columbia is no mean rival, which, judging from expressions of Harvard men in the past, that high and mighty institution seems to think she is, overcame the opposition and the challenge was accepted by the unanimous vote of the students in mass meeting assembled. The race in June will show what the probable result of last year's race would have been had Harvard remained at New London. It is impossible to forecast...
...satisfactory to us. We have not been overwhelmed by the courtesy of any one of the contestants this year, and we would have been perfectly satisfied to see any one of the three leaders disastrously defeated by the others. It is a matter of congratulation for us, I think, to have had the experience of the year past. It will teach Columbia a lesson, not to believe too much in any one of the three self-styled great universities who consider Columbia as a mere nonentity because her students do not happen to bunk together...
...with gratifying success. All has been done that could possibly have been done to give the room a promising send-off. Its success now depends largely on those who have already taken enough interest in the enterprise to subscribe to it. We hope that these will not think that, for the present, they have done enough by simply signing their names. The directors of the association intend to have the room in running order when the students come back from the Christmas recess. In order to do this they will need an immediate supply of money, and it will prove...
Second Swell: Think so, old man? Well, I don't mind telling you; it's a little idea of my own. It's one of the guvnor's cuffs. - [Spectator...