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...feel the responsibility resting upon himself and the great importance of making a careful study of rowing. In this state of affairs a written description of the Harvard stroke may possibly be of assistance. For the benefit of beginners we publish some directions for rowing. In the article an attempt has been made to state the reasons for each one of the directions and, at the same time to make them intelligible to others who are interested in the stroke rowed by Harvard crews...
...correspondent's letter contains better suggestions. The plan of having the Index contain a directory of the men living in the dormitories would be a great addition, and one that the students would appreciate and use. Such a directory would supply a long felt want, which the catalogue cannot attempt to supply, and neither the Index nor any of the pamphlets issued in the autumn have yet filled. Then, too, without casting any reflection upon the present editor, we would like to urge that a change in the present manner of editing our annual is desirable. As now conducted...
...strong effort is being made to remove the Dartmouth medical college from Hanover to Concord. Persons interested in the attempt claim that the conditions upon which the professors of the New Hampshire medical institution became trustees of the state property at Hanover, have not been complied with, and that Attorney-General Tappan will call the attention of these men to the legislation concerning the subject. They also allege that there is quite a general feeling that the property should not be used by men who discriminate against women as medical students and that the General Court at its next session...
Girard College, Philadelphia, has just opened a school of technology. It will not attempt to teach in full any one trade, but to give instruction in the skillful use of tools in wood and iron. This is in some respects a new experiment...
...best, in fact, that the hall has ever served. In the gymnasium about fifty men exercised every afternoon, under the supervision of Mr. Lathrop, and the absence of the regular crews made the use of the rowing machines popular. A diversion was created on last Tuesday night by the attempt of two men to break into a room in the north entry of Hollis. The burglars were frightened away, however, by the occupants of the room before they succeeded in effecting an entrance. As this occurrence has been reported to the police it is safe to predict that nothing farther...