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...wish to call attention to the proposed change in the boat-club system, which is fully described in another column. This change seems likely to produce much good, as it will, eventually, greatly decrease the expenses incumbent on membership of the clubs, and, further, will place the whole management of the boats and boat-house in the hands of the club officers. The result of this will be that boats will be more regularly repaired, and better taken care of, all complaints and desired changes will be more readily attended to, and the ownership of the boats will bring with...
...other in comparison with which they sink into insignificance. It has frequently happened that as soon as a number of men had finished their papers, the books were seized by some proctor, who, after reading until he came to a passage that seemed to him ridiculous, would call a fellow-proctor to enjoy the laugh with him. Now, examination-books are written for instructors; proctors have no right to read them, and those few who take the right and make sport over them insult every student in the examination-room...
BEFORE, Harvard indifference was the target at which he shot his blunt arrows; now it is the non-attendance of students at the lectures of the Rev. Joseph Cook. If it were only Mr. Cook and his lectures to which he wished to call our attention, he might be excused; but our agitator cannot do this without impeaching Harvard College of snubbing a genius, Cambridge of "Miss Nancyism," the Nation of making mistakes (!), and himself of ignorance...
...wish to call attention to the true state of the club system of boating and to the real causes for that lack of interest which threatens to prove fatal. We believe that the trouble does not lie with the system itself, which was founded, after careful study, by men experienced in college boating and which, by the success of its first year, proved its excellence as a system. During that year good crews were carefully got together and good races rowed, and it was shown that, under these circumstances, enough rivalry existed to render the races amply interesting...
...student leaves the classic shades with a better education than the most unremitting toil would have obtained for him here. Whether this is the view which the writers in our papers take or not, I heartily join with them in the wish that Harvard may be able soon to call itself a true University...