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...hardly need refutation in the community at large, or in the Eastern colleges of the present day; and almost every one who has any knowledge of the sort of superintendence necessary to an educational institution would agree with the Michigan Faculty when they say that "the university can better afford to be without students than without government, order, and reputation." As to the main question of hazing, let us be thankful that nothing need be said to Harvard readers, and wish for our Western sister as peaceful a settlement of the disputed point as we have had here; though, were...
...crew is ever so strong that it can afford to dispense with substitutes in case of accidents. With a crew of new men, such as the Sophomores have been obliged to put forward as representing the rowing power of their class, a second crew is an absolute necessity. Without it, if the present six (which is now in very good trim) loses a man, they will have to take into the boat another, perfectly raw and untrained, and it will be not only his rowing which will injure the crew, but the disheartening knowledge that their progress has been stopped...
...date which was at first set for the publication of the historical album of the University (if it may be so called), it is found, does not afford time for the thorough preparation of all the subjects coming within the scope of the work. Moreover, new subjects have come up which should not be overlooked, and which demand more time than could be given them were the book to appear in June...
...boating-system will afford such an opportunity, but the intercollegiate race affords another just as good, and the two do not conflict. There is no reason, then, for dispensing with the one which we have now, because we are soon to have another. And we hope that, as college boating enters on the new era, of which the Advocate speaks, a long succession of Freshman races will be begun...
...their duty for a while, but eventually grew so fat that they could compete in size with an ordinary pigeon, and could scarcely reach the tops of the trees. Though Boston has lost its Granary Elms, let Harvard still retain the beautiful foliage of its college elms, and afford some material for the sentimentalists of the University...