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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...alumni infuse considerable life into the board, but not enough to represent fairly a body of graduates so widely scattered throughout the country as are those of Yale. The alumni of Yale point to Harvard where the method of government embodies what they desire at Yale and they say that the results obtained from the method here, justify the placing of the government of a great institution into the hands of its representative graduates...
...effect of the spring trip of the nine has been to show that if Harvard is to put a victorious team in the field in the coming championship games a great deal of hard work must be done. The work of the nine agains professionals was, to say the least, discouraging, although, when we take into consideration all the disadvantages under which the nine played, not so unsatisfactory as many seem to think. The infield is very weak and the team as a whole bat very poorly, The great advantage of these professional games is to bring out the weak...
...CRIMSON yesterday attacking the man agreement of the freshman crew. If there had not been a similar attack in your editorial column. I think that after the events of the past winter, I should not be justified in noticing it. For the benefit of others, however, I will say that early in the year, Captain Kidder asked me to coach his crew, alleging that he was having some difficulty in getting men to help him. Finally, Mr. Carpenter and I assisted him in laying out a plan for the work of his crew. One feature of that plan is slow...
...freshman class will be surprised to learn how its crew is getting along. Every boating man knows that their material is good and judging from their performance last fall many have predicted great things of them in the spring, But at present their rowing is ridiculous, not to say disgraceful. They are vastly slower now than they were last fall! If, after six months training they are slower than they were when they began, how slow will they be after nine months? What are we to think of the coaching they have received...
...Professor William T. Tucker of the Andover Theological Seminary, preached at Appleton Chapel last evening. He took his text from Matthew vi:2, where Christ, speaking of the Pharisees, says, "Verily I say unto you, they have their reward." He said that often where a principle finds an apt illustration as here, we bound the principle by the illustration. But here the principle is so important that we must not lose it thus. It is Christ's purpose to teach that the personal reward of an action corresponds, and is proportionate to the motive. He applied this princilpe...