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...wanted-one who has not been in the employ of any boat club preferred-who can keep his opinions to himself and make himself generally useful-just as the former janitor did. I desire to ask the men in college to co-operate with me in a proposed attempt to get a first-class man, by sending to me the names and address of any persons known to them who might fit into the place with all its requirements...
...which proved such a valuable substitute for the hydraulics, has been considerably improved this season. Last year, owing to the peculiar construction of the tank, the water would accumulate in one end after a few strokes, and it was impossible to row more than thirty strokes without stopping. An attempt has been made to claimant this difficulty by beveling the bottom in the corners of the tank near the bow of the boat and by erecting washboards near them. By means of these it is expected that the water will form two continuous currents-one on each side...
...doing so little. Life works by certain divine contagion. Facilities, opportunities, rules, standards, traditions-all are good; but life itself is better, and a working faculty will make a working school. That is the central fact of student life at Harvard; this is a working school. Space forbids any attempt to show here the courses of study, or to insert examination papers fitted to show what advanced students are expected to do. The chief fact is that the standards are all the time advancing, while methods are improved and facilities are increased. The library statistics form one index to show...
...dangerous men; (b) the organization has a tendency to train members to obey their leaders, rather than the laws of the country; (c) it teaches them erroneous principles of political economy; (d) it leads men to be discontented with their station in life, to hate capitalists, and to attempt violence in order to bring about a change in the present social order.- Nation...
...knight attempt to benefit those laborers only who belong to their order, not to elevate labor in general.- Nation...