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Rowing and Athletic Annual for 1875. Edited by JAMES WATSON, New York. Published by the Editor...
...second volume of this Annual shows that during the year 1874 the interest in Athletics in this country has noticeably increased. The Editor in his Preface says: "The establishment of an Intercollegiate Athletic meeting has given great impetus to Athletics at various seats of learning, and each college has organized, or is about to organize, an Athletic Club, which step will, we are convinced, do more to advance and popularize Athletics than any other method...
...fraternity, which has on its rolls the names of so large a proportion of Harvard's distinguished graduates, is one of the highest honors which are bestowed on successful students, it cannot be out of place to give expression in this public manner to the general opinion that the annual supper would be far pleasanter, if two hours and a half were not spent in listening to so many weak and silly attempts at wit. Just as this year's dinner was more entertaining than the last, let us hope that next year some more amusing or at any rate...
...college which shall fail to be represented in three consecutive regattas of the Association shall be debarred from future membership. Section 2 of the amendments of April 2, 1873, now reads: "Any college not represented in either the University or Freshman race of the regatta, immediately preceding the annual convention of this Association shall not be considered a member of this Association, and shall not have a vote in any succeeding convention, until it shall have gained; its full membership by such representation in the regatta directly preceding such convention." That no college that is not represented in either...
...have often heard it stated that there is more general musical culture in this country than in England; and this assertion seems borne out by the fact that the greatest names which appear in the programme of the Annual Malvern College Concert are those of Donizetti and Diabelli, who have one selection each out of fourteen numbers. We think with complacency of the selections from Mendelssohn, Haydn, Weber, and Wagner which filled the programme of our last concert. The poetry in the Malvernian is better than that in most of our English exchanges...