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CERTAINLY it is annoying to have proctors in squeaking boots walking up and down an examination-room. It is annoying, also, to have two proctors stand behind you and converse in tones so exquisitely modulated that you catch just half their conversation. But, great as these annoyances are, there is one 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...
...this constant social intercourse among a large body of educated and highly trained young men cannot be overestimated." Is this much in advance of "the salutation, the bow, the courtesy," etc., of Neophogen? These improprieties in our Catalogue - embracing the commonplace, the bombastic, and some passages of a catch-penny character - must have come down to us from the time when Harvard was that much-talked of High School; now that she is a University, they should be carefully weeded...
...time has been rather poor during the past week. The vigor of the catch has fallen off, and the men have not improved on the recover as fast as desirable. The captain, who has been coaching most of the time since the holidays, last week took stroke's lever, - Schwartz going to 6, and LeMoyne, '78, to 4. Bancroft has an inclination to bucket, to screw at the finish, and does not always get his hands out properly. Brigham and LeMoyne, '78, have both improved on the use of their slides. Brigham does not set his shoulders firmly...
...need to put more-vim into the catch. At present Legate, Loring, Harriman, and Preston are noticeably deficient in this respect. The frequency with which the hydraulics get out of order is a serious annoyance, and causes no little expense. At present they are the best adapted to the purpose of anything known, and the trouble they make - like many other obstacles met in the training of the crew - has to be endured as best...
...should put more fire into the stroke. Harriman is apt to hurry the recover, and also lacks fire in the stroke. The finish of the stroke with his shoulders and upper part of his body is one of the best. He bends his inside arm just before taking the catch, and at times inclines his inside leg out too much in the same part of the stroke. He tries hard and will make a most graceful...