Word: books
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Matthews Club have opened a book at the Gymnasium, and the following men have entered their names for the crew: G. L. Meyer, A. P. Cushing, J. Q. A. Brett, J. T. Gilbert, G. K. Boutelle, W. H. Hubbard...
...been the practice of some students, when they found that a book which they wanted had been engaged for the night, to take the book from the Library without getting it charged. In the morning it would be brought back and put in its place as stealthily as it had been taken away. The injustice of such a practice is apparent, and the self-respect of the students should insure its immediate discontinuance...
ALMOST all the college papers have contained reviews of "Student Life at Harvard." Of the reviewers, some have praised lavishly, while others have not spared criticism; but all have found some pleasure in reading the book. The extremes of criticism have been found in reviews outside the college press. While we have found nothing in the book to justify the indiscriminate praise of the Boston journals, we have certainly found nothing to justify the contemptuous and ill-natured growls of the New York Times and the Atlantic...
...their ease too precious to be intrenched upon by anything so disagreeable as that work at the Gymnasium which their position requires of them. These gentlemen should feel that, as captains of their clubs, they accept responsibilities which cannot be disregarded. The captain of Matthews has tardily placed a book at the Gymnasium for his candidates; yet this, though a beginning, is a most feeble one, and needs to be vigorously followed up. It is useless to propose plans to change or replace the club system. We intend showing, in a later issue, that two cups are already...
...begun work of any kind. The example set by Holyoke certainly deserves the imitation of the other clubs. Twelve men have been at work in the Gymnasium for some weeks, and eight more are to begin after the Semiannuals. The other clubs have as yet not even opened a book for the names of those who wish to try for the crews. The races last year were so poor that few went to see them, and so little training had been done that those who rowed were wholly lacking in enthusiasm in their work or in the result...