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...effect of flowers raining from the branches-carrying out somewhat the idea of a "flower carnival"- would be very attractive from the point of view of the spectator. This proposal is put forth merely tentatively, as a means of helping along the discussion...
This year the men will be drilled along the new lines from the start. There will be a short cross-country run, gymnastic exercises, and the usual pull in the tank. In the tank itself there have been some important changes. In place of the old twelve-foot oars with a hole cut in the blade, a new set has been made with the blades shaved down to the same width as the shaft-three inches-which makes the strain less than with the old seven inch blades. The leverage has also been increased. With the old oar there...
...brutality. Why? Because Harvard men have realized that such practices are degrading, that the spirit that prompts them is meanness and cowardice. The men most eminently fitted for hazing was the "thug." Of course, there were many very admirable men that took part in hazing, but they were carried along by public opinion. It is to athletics, principally, that is due the credit for the newer and manlier public sentiment...
...which, according to one plan of exercises proposed, forms a prominent feature in the Class Day programme, would be very likely to increase individual expenses incurred in the graduating festivities. There would inevitably be incurred some expense for carriages and flowers. The Corporation's plan also of having boxes along the sides of Memorial Hall on the night of the dance could hardly be carried out without cost. The means of assigning these boxes would probably have to be by sale. If they were to cost anything like the sum usually paid for boxes at the Yale Prom., either...
...been felt necessary to provide a place to take that of the saloons and dives which abound in this vicinity along Atlantic Avenue. It has always been hard heretofore to make any lasting effect on the sailors because the work of Sundays has not been supplemented by any other means; the work has been desultory. It is thought that, by means of the work during the week, this need may be fulfilled...