prize-oarsman

Updated: May 27, 2025

Now the "rough," when brought to a physical climax, becomes the prize-fighter; and the college student is seen in his highest condition as the prize-oarsman; and both these representative men, under such circumstances of ambition, straightway abandon tobacco. Such a concession, from such a quarter, is worth all the denunciations of good Mr. Trask.

Various - The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861