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...loose, jumping far out of the water, darting one way and another, and finally swimming off sometimes a mile, while we have to follow all the way, running over slippery bowlders, and at times up to the waist in water, always ready to give out or take in line, uncertain whether there is ten pound or fifty on the end of the line, until at last the fish is exhausted. The air is so bracing, though, that one can easily endure the fatigue. In this way we pass up the river, following the fish, Who go up to spawn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SALMON FISHING. | 6/5/1874 | See Source »

...theory. Of course, any system allowing greater freedom is sure to find sturdy partisans; but the desirability of voluntary recitations has not yet been proved. What the effect of throwing open these Elysian fields may have on the "margin of cultivation" (to quote our amiable friend, Mrs. Fawcett) is uncertain; but a judicious use of the privilege will doubtless make the students' labor easier; a man may get through many subjects, with a recitation now and then, and perhaps get as high a per cent as now, by making use of some elaborate notes and one of Harpers' maturer Youth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: REFORMS. | 2/13/1874 | See Source »

WHETHER or not it is true that a bond 1,000 cup has been offered for a contest between Yale and Harvard vs. Oxford or Cambridge is quite uncertain, since persons most likely to have knowledge upon the subject profess ignorance, and the rumored author of the proposal is too far away to be interviewed...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 1/9/1874 | See Source »

THOUGH Winter has "lingered" for an unusually long time in the "lap of Spring," and Jupiter Pluvius still makes out-door plans uncertain, we are forcibly reminded that Spring has really come. The shop windows are placarded with "Spring Openings," several vernal poems have been offered for publication, and groups of Freshmen can be seen playing marbles and pitch-penny. But to us surer and more important signs are the small crowd with cricket and base-ball bats, that move toward Jarvis daily after dinner, and the smaller crowd that direct their steps toward the boat-houses just before supper...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

...crew will probably consist of Dana (stroke), Goodwin, Morse, Low, Bacon, Devens (bow). The Junior crew is at present Silsbee (stroke), Wheeler, Good-rich, Harding, Burry, P. Dana (bow); and the Sophomore crew Hunnewell (stroke), Prince, Wet-more, Clark, Appleton, Hartwell (bow). The Freshman crew is still more uncertain; but as there are some ten good candidates for its seats, there is no danger that Captain Hodges will not present a good crew at the race...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 4/18/1873 | See Source »

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