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With the re-organization of the inter-collegiate regattas comes the question whether Harvard shall or shall not participate. There are a few among us who favor the plan of training up a four-oared crew, but it seems as if this project, abandoned six years ago as no longer practicable, can hardly be worthy of serious consideration at the present time, when, in addition to the reasons which existed six years ago, we have another crew, and one which requires the best of our oarsmen and the greater share of our attention...
...These institutions represent a reaction. Cosmopolitanism and non-sectarianism are naturally distasteful to the provincial and sectarian. But it may be that Tufts College and the Boston University do not attempt so much to rival Harvard as to fill a position left vacant and abandoned by her many years ago...
...class rushes at the Yale Sheffield School are not noted for their tameness. One fellow, some time ago, was completely stripped of his clothing and forced to scramble to his room with a long ulster wrapped around...
...class crews, with the exception of the seniors, have begun regular work in the gymnasium. The freshmen are rowing in essentially the same order as that published two weeks ago, and are making rapid improvement under the efficient instruction of Col. Bancroft...
...existence. It will well repay perusal. The writer concludes: "the success which the gymnasium has met with, from the purely health point of view, has been in great measure due to the many valuable exercising machines of Dr. Sargent's own invention, which were placed in it three years ago. He has invented others, equally valuable, since, but with the usual miserly conservatism of college governments, no inducement has been offered him to put them in the building, or, rather, no money has been put at his disposal for such a purpose. Many of the new ones are being placed...