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...amateur club. Apparently the first part of the programme is intended as an opposition to the National Association, who have just offered such handsome cups for college crews only. There will be a great chance in these two regattas for all ambitious colleges to send crews and witch the world with feats of noble oarsmanship, but we are thankful the races are held so late in the year. Were it otherwise, a crew from the Michigan University, or the Hampton College of Virginia, might win one of these races and insist upon our rowing them before setting sail for England...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: OUR SPORTING COLUMN. | 12/19/1878 | See Source »

...weird witch-dance of the wraiths of cloud...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CAPRICCIETTO. | 5/21/1875 | See Source »

...with bourgeois ideas, he becomes artiste, and a bourgeois-gentilhomme is as much an artiste as anybody. A thing to be noticed in the metamorphosis from bourgeois to artiste is that the change is unnatural and revolutionary. Bourgeois should and do gradually change to gentlemen, as the art-hating, witch-burning society of Massachusetts has become the clientele of the Harvard College of to-day. Unnatural development must be one-sided, and artistes are, as it were, permanently preserved tailless tadpoles...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GENTILSHOMMES, BOURGEOIS, ARTISTES. | 2/26/1875 | See Source »

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