Word: year
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Dates: during 1873-1873
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...rather amusing to notice the sincere way in which many of our smaller exchanges compliment the Advocate and Magenta on their cheerful resignation after Harvard's defeat in the Regatta, and applaud their "plucky" hopes for next year. We assure our kind sympathizers that boating is not quite dead here, and that just as likely as not there will be some kind of a Harvard crew next summer...
COLLEGE journalism has taken a decided and remarkable start at Cornell, the beginning of the new year being marked by the birth of two papers, or rather, a paper and a quarterly magazine, - The Cornell Times and The Cornell Review. Of these the Review is by far the larger, and, we must say, the more vigorous. From the Salutatory we learn that it is conducted by the literary societies of the University. The articles are all well written, interesting, deep, and spirited. Though we shall always welcome its appearance, and wish it all success, we very much doubt whether that...
...fact that it is generally considered necessary in boat-races to have water to row on. There is, to be sure, some water in the Connecticut, but not enough. Nearly in the middle of the course, and about a mile from the start the bottom showed itself last year, and yet last year was not unusually dry. This was in the direct course of the boats, and although no boat actually ran into it during the race, yet some boats had to go over the shoals around it. Besides, the current is very uneven in different parts of the river...
...difference and keep even with the others until the end of the race, they would have had to row a quarter of a mile farther than the other crews. There was certainly that difference between the currents where Harvard and Yale started and where Cornell was placed last year...
...moribund condition of the association seems to have been chiefly due to the lethargy of last year's administration; and with the election of the present board of officers, the association seemed to take a new lease of life, and the evil day of dissolution was averted, for a time at least. The fact then came to light that of last year's Freshmen only thirty had become members; and these last really did not seem to enjoy any privileges from which the rest of the class were debarred...