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...resignation of two members of the Glee Club seem to be variously understood here in College, it may not be out of place to state them definitely and unmistakably. At the beginning of the first term, last October, the attention of the editors of the Crimson was called, by certain members of the Glee Club, to the anomalous proceedings of the "Arion Quartette" during the previous summer. The criticism with which the editors of your paper saw fit to visit that new musical society did not tend to ameliorate matters between the "Arion Quartette" and the Glee Club...
...they judge best calculated to promote their aims and purposes in after life, will receive, on the "Commencement Programme and in the next following Annual Catalogue," credit for the proficiency which may be attained in any one or more studies, provided, in special cases, they shall also attain a certain average mark; and, at the same time, those who obtain a high average mark will be entitled to all the distinction it has heretofore conferred. Honors in an institution of learning can have no other object than to incite a spirit of emulation among its members, and we have...
...Freshman Crew give the impression to those who watch them carefully that several of the members are half-hearted in their work, and make but a semblance of training. These should realize that merely pulling a certain number of strokes, and running or walking a certain distance, is not the only requisite to secure and keep perfect condition. There are a thousand and one minor matters that need equal attention, and which one's sense of honor and duty only can enforce. They have the reputation of their class at stake, and anything tending, however indirectly, to damage that...
...education, not in the education of a score or more young men in college, but in education as the power best fitted to benefit society and civilize the world. Their problem was, "How best can we aid that cause?" and their solution of the problem was the depositing of certain sums of money with our University to be used, within certain limits, as men best fitted to judge should decide. To carry out their excellent purpose the recipients of scholarships are necessary agents. The desire for an education - the first and essential condition of success in its attainment - is often...
...first part of this letter was written, I have learned that Columbia intends to enter an eight and a four, not only in the Metropolitan Association Regatta of Friday, July 4, but also in the N. A. A. O. regatta of a few days later; that Cornell is almost certain to be a competitor in both events on the latter occasion; that Princeton has nine men in training for the same four-oared race; that the proposed prize for class sixes will not be offered before next year; that Newark will probably be chosen as the scene of the regatta...