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...meeting of the officers of the four boat-clubs and the Executive Committee of the H. U. B. C., held on Monday evening, resolutions were passed which cannot fail to be of interest to all who are concerned with boating at Harvard, whether they are in favor of class or club races...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOAT-CLUB MEETING. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

ALTHOUGH it is very gratifying to have our virtues commended and our faults forgotten, we cannot expect to derive any real benefit from this kind of criticism. An unbiassed comparison, whether between individuals or institutions, is the only one conducive to marked improvement...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...estimate of the average annual value of a fellowship; so that the annual expenditure at Oxford and Cambridge for Fellows, who in that capacity are bound to no service to the University, and are free to follow their own pursuits, whether they be literary or otherwise, cannot be reckoned at less than...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: ENGLISH UNIVERSITIES. | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...Bostons. There are five college clubs besides our own that compete each year for the championship; games with them must necessarily be few because of the distance that separates us from them, and the time and money required to meet them. As the matter now stands, we cannot play with outside clubs on either their grounds or ours, nor can we play often with other colleges because of the distance, etc.; and as there are no amateur clubs in our immediate neighborhood, it would seem almost inevitable that our nine, of which we have justly been so proud, should fall...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/8/1878 | See Source »

...author some time and trouble. In the Literary World of March 1 we find an article, "The Index to the North American Review," about which we wish to say a few words. We are always glad that the merits of the Crimson should be duly appreciated, and we cannot help feeling grateful to the gentleman whose name appears at the end of the article for his flattering though somewhat peculiar tribute. He seems to have borrowed his facts from the Crimson, not merely without the least acknowledgment of indebtedness, but under his own signature. Not that his article does...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 3/8/1878 | See Source »