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...water, if not the best, and if Harvard wishes to send a crew to New London that will not suffer in comparison with "Yale's giants," our crew will have to do as much hard and careful training as any crew has ever done in the whole history of boating. Yale has won two races in succession, and is doing her best to win a third. If Harvard's crew does its best, however, between now and the day of the race we see no reason why the crimson should not again come in at the finish ahead...
...that must be aimed directly at Harvard], they doubtless had the expectation that it would be taken as a very sensible and entirely proper method of expressing their critical opinion of the aesthetic side of art." Identifying Mr. Wilde and the "aesthetic side of art" is good. This whole discussion is, we fear, becoming somewhat tiresome; but then we must ask the American in what single instance college boys were incited by their daily journals to any such a heinous piece of business as we were guilty of here. At the risk of self-repetition, we should like to quote...
...those hot-blooded Southern fellows in college - fellows that had all the money they wanted, and who dared to do anything. They used to do things that were ingenious - things that required brain-work to invent; and lots of daring to carry out. Once they blew out the whole side of University. Of course any one could have thought of that, but it required lots of nerve to do it, and do it in such a way as to escape detection. At another time they were going to have a big time here putting up the flag-pole. They were...
...convince him of his error and induce him to withdraw from his unfortunate enterprise. When questioned as to his famous opinion about the Atlantic, he explained it (we are told) as follows: "Oh, that unfortunate saying! It will become historic, I suppose," and the long curls shook, and the whole frame of the aesthete quivered, as he enjoyed a hearty laugh. "You know I wanted to see a big storm. I am very fond of the sea, and I have been at sea in very rough weather. I wanted to see the fury of an Atlantic gale...
...recent heavy rains in the West have caused a great rise in the rivers, especially the Ohio and Mississippi. At Cincinnati there has been a rise of fifty-three feet. Parts of Louisville, Ky., are under water, and at Helena, Ark., the whole town is flooded...