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...answer to Harvard's reply that the University would probably not be able to enter a crew in the Harlem regatta, the Columbia University boat club has offered to race either its university or second crew in Cambridge or New York during the first part of June...
...said that this will cramp the suitable administration of the Union. The answer is that the Union is intended to serve all Harvard men, and that doing one's duty in a plain manner, -- even frugally if necessary--is better than the splendid doing of something else. That is clear as to individuals; to the uninitiated it seems equally true of a social club...
Harvard and Yale have challenged Oxford and Cambridge for a regular set of track games to be held in New York during the early part of next July. The challenge was sent to the English universities last week and an answer by cable is expected in a few days...
What were the qualities of mind and of literary art which made Stevenson the leader in the romantic revival? "I loved the art of words and the appearances of life," he once wrote, and in this sentence is contained the answer to the question. He was peculiarly a word artist, a writer of surpassing skill in rhetorical effect. He "loved the appearances of men"; he had a keen zest for romantic adventure, a keen curiosity concerning the lives and characters of men, and, above all, a sensitive appreciation of the romantic in scenery and history. The one weakness...
Heretofore, however, the CRIMSON has been given credit at least for trying to be fair. But when it printed a personal attack in its last issue before the Christmas recess, at a time which made an answer to it impossible for two weeks, only one inference can be drawn. Further than this, editors of the CRIMSON knew when this editorial was printed, that in a question of discipline in the baseball nine last spring, the correspondents in concert supported the captain of the team; they knew that for three years the correspondents have refrained from describing in detail any play...