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...obtained at the Publication Office. In making his choice, the student is limited to those studies which his previous training qualifies him to pursue; and he must observe any restrictions that may be attached to the particular courses he wishes to select. He is further required to avoid any conflict of recitation hours of examinations between his courses...
...English universities by Oxford and Cambridge. As there is no foundation in fact for such a pretension, we think it better for university athletics in this country, as well as for university interests in general, that we should not lend any countenance to it, and that we should, furthermore, avoid all semblance of a spirit of exclusiveness towards our sister universities. Nor, considering the narrower ground of athletic skill, can we forget that, in the latest competition among American universities, Harvard won only the third place...
Nobody, except seniors dressed for the scrimmage, will be admitted to the Tree without a ticket. Every senior who can is expected to take part. Seniors are requested to avoid any absurdity of dress and are urged to wear canvas jackets or other clothing which cannot be torn...
...starts for New London with a good record of progress behind it, and a month on the Thames should do wonders. On Monday Hollister will take his place on the crew at No. 4. He has been well for the past week and has not rowed, because advised to avoid the atmosphere of the Charles River. R. H. Stevenson will not row again this year...
...question is too often dismissed in this way merely to avoid the personal inconvenience which it is well known would follow upon a really fair decision. The strict application of theory to practice in the college world demands a disregard of one's temporary convenience which to many students would seem little less than brutal. An ideal is such a persistently determined affair that one shrinks from encountering it. When a man knows he is honorable, why expose himself to the unpleasant suggestion that he is not? The hint that his estimate of himself has been too high...