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...there make the beginning of its athletic career. There is an old saw which says briefly, "a work well begun, is a work half done," and indeed if the meeting be a successful one, it will give the athletics of the class an impetus which will carry them well along for the ensuing four years; but if on the contrary, it prove unsuccessful, it will be a heavy weight for the class to bear in whatever they may do afterwards. Obviously it is only the individual athletes who can bring success to a meeting, and if every...
...this object, they have another arrangement which is apparently of great promise for scientific study, but which has hitherto not effected much; that is the institution of fellowships. Those who have passed the best examinations are elected as fellows of their college, where they have a home, and along with this, a respectable income, so that they can devote the whole of their leisure to scientific pursuits. Both Oxford and Cambridge have each more than 500 such fellowships. The fellows may, but need not act as tutors for the students. They need not even live in the university town...
...faculty," and there the work of passing out the freshmen was undertaken. It was not remarkably successful, but there was lots of fun in it and all along the sidewalk. Through the constant persuasions of the seniors and juniors the freshmen were spurred to take and keep the sidewalk in spite of all the efforts of the sophomores, as far as the vacant lot this side of the orphan asylum, where the long struggle was stopped. The freshmen showed unexpected "sand" and pluck throughout all the rushing and well earned their victories...
Commencement punch is one of the sacred traditions of Cambridge, and it has been handed down along with the other good old customs, with all its mellow influences unimpaired. In the old days the punch used to be served in huge tubs on the college green, and classmates pledged each other's health in generous tin dippers. Of late years. however, each class has provided a separate bowl of punch of its own in the rooms facing on the college yard, and the year of the class has been conspicuously placarded on the outer wall, in order that the graduates...
...hurried up to 40 and kept at that rate. At the fast stroke the rowing becomes short and scratchy, and the energy of a heavy crew is wasted in swinging back and forth instead of the power being reserved as much as possible for the driving of the boat along when the oar is in the water. The training stroke of the crew has ranged from 35 to 37 strokes per minute, and the daily work after the first week has been extended up to six miles per day, and from that to eight as deemed advisable by the captain...