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...probably not satisfied that Harvard has made due reparation in sending a challenge without an accompanying apology. They therefore deem it unworthy of our dignity to row the Cambridge crew, and are loath to countenance the race by their support. For the benefit of these we shall attempt to explain matters. Columbia holds one view of the late difficulty, Harvard another. We hold that the Harvard crew and the boat club, by its subsequent action, were entirely in the wrong, and that our men could not have acted otherwise than they did. Harvard claims that there existed merely a misunderstanding...
...seems strange that so little poetry appears in its columns; and we are forced to believe the editors discourage the would-be Brownings and Hemanses, though the one piece which appeared this fall was a very clever production. We would suggest an increase of "College Notes," and an attempt at typographical improvement...
...ease with which the freshman year can now be anticipated will also do much to encourage men to attempt to take their degrees in three years. In fact, the new regulations amount to raising the standard of admission in individual cases and then granting the degree after three years of elective work. This action is a sure indication of the direction affairs are taking at Harvard in regard to required studies...
...deserving of great concern, I do not believe. Harvard's growth and progress has perhaps been too rapid. These institutions represent a reaction. Cosmopolitanism and non-sectarianism are naturally distasteful to the provincial and sectarian. But it may be that Tufts College and the Boston University do not attempt so much to rival Harvard as to fill a position left vacant and abandoned by her many years...
...writer attributes this change to the introduction of the elective system of which he gives a brief description. He mentions as a fact not well known that on a recent attempt to make the entire curriculum elective, the vote was nearly a tie although the motion was lost...