Word: write
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...because it is many a year since an eight-oared race has been rowed in this country. Who will be the victors we cannot say until the crews get upon the course. From the newspaper accounts of the "crews and their prospects," nothing can be learned. The men who write them are generally more ignorant than a tyro about boating, and their sources of information are very indirect...
...When any Scholler is able to read and understand Tully, Virgill or any such ordinary classical authors, and can readily make, speake, or write true latine prose, and hath skill in makeing verse, and is competently grounded in the greek language, so as to be able to construe and grammatically to resolve ordinary greek as the greeke testament, Isocrates and the Minor poets or such like, having withall meet testimony of his toward-ness, he shall be capable of his admission Into Colledge...
...recent award of the Bowdoin prizes for dissertations of excellence reminds us that the incentives to exertion in the fields of literature are confined, with us, entirely to prose. We have had here, in the past ten years, many men who have given evidence of ability to write very good poetry, but we have not yet found one who possessed both the means and the disposing frame of mind to encourage the rising lights in the poetic firmament. At Oxford the prize poem is something which is struggled for, and the successful man is justly admired. That such a prize...
...Volante, University of Chicago, has some doubt as to how to write our address; it hesitated between "Harvard, Mass." and "Harvard Institute, Cam., Mass.," but finally chose the latter. We ourselves would be contented with the simple "Cam., Mass...
...small. On general principles, we are opposed to any sort of connection between the general public and the race. It is purely a college affair, with which the public should have but a passive interest. During the past few years, however, it has been the custom to talk and write about the College Regatta as if it were some professional contest...