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...course this cannot be directly helped, as the library cannot supply enough copies of every book to distribute to the whole college. But it does seems as if, with the money to do it and the advantage of all modern improvements, the proper authorities might have made an attempt to enlighten the library as well as the minds of the students...
...matter is to be taken in hand, the present sophomore class is the one to do it, and not the upper classmen. The experiment might result most disastrously, but an attempt on the other hand might effect changes both unexpected and beneficial...
...Yale men support their papers as they support their teams-energetically; and do all things they attempt thoroughly. We devote all our powers to neglecting everything that does not increase our personal pleasure...
...been astonished at the audacity of such extreme measures, we would say that long years ago those sign-boards were put in place-long before Harvard had reached her position of sublime indiffer erence or inanity-call it what you will-and that no one now a-days would attempt any such energetic movement as is threatened upon these ancient landmarks. May they always remain placed as they are now, sacred mementos of our former greatness...
...heap in boating matters, should go over to England this coming summer and row the winner in the Oxford-Cambridge race, might, if it was followed up earnestly, result advantageously to college boating in England and the United States. Any half-way attempt as, in case of our defeat, the sending of Yale across the Atlantic to row for this one season without any prospect of a renewal of the contest in after years, whould probably be profitless. But if an agreement between Yale and Harvard could be entered into whereby the winner of the race between them should...