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...short sketch of "Friar Tuck" a run-away horse, by L. F. Nicoll 1901 is original, but rather abrupt and disjointed...
...each particular year. Each class as it reaches this responsibility attacks the problems it must meet to the very best of its ability, but its time is so short that just as it has learned something by experience and is in a position to accomplish something, graduation puts an abrupt end to its opportunity. Next fall another equally green set takes charge. Thus there can never be any real continuity of purpose. With such a complete change of personality every year, gradual, careful construction of a system in athletics or in any thing else is not to be expected...
...Cessation of building would be an abrupt break in the policy adhered to since 1886: Herbert, p. 424. - (a) Additional ships should be ordered by next Congress for - (1) Usual time for building a battle-ship is 5 years. - (2) Cramp can not construct the best in less than 2 1/2 years: Higgins in Cong. Rec. Vol. 27, p. 3576. - (b) Provision for - (1) Sudden shipwreck, cf. Reina Regente. - (2) Ordinary wear and tear. - (3) Filling place of older ships made nearly useless by modern improvements...
...boat builder, is at work on a barge for the freshman crew, which he expects to have finished soon after the 15th. The barge is very much lighter and narrower than the boat the freshmen had last year, and it is hoped by this means to avoid the usual abrupt change when the crew begins to row in a racing shell...
...Eighteen years ago the Corporation, fully realizing the importance of the Library to the development of advanced instruction at Cambridge in all subjects, spent $90,000 out of their very limited unrestricted capital in enlarging the original Gore Hall. The unrestricted funds have never recovered from that abrupt reduction, - on the contrary, they have been still further diminished by occasional annual deficits in excess of annual surplusses. It is impossible for the Corporation to repeat that operation. The whole income of the University from invested funds and from tuition-fees is needed to maintain the present scale of expenditure...