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...publish in another column the long expected attack upon eighty-eight for the action taken at their class meeting in regard to the Columbia race. Our New York brethren betray a tolerable amount of spleen, but their arguments contain too great an "element of weakness" to be convincing. They also show considerable ignorance of the science and requirements of boatracing, where the propelling force is manually performed. In asserting that a "crew in proper training and condition should be able to row two (four mile) races on consecutive days," they lay themselves open to challenge. The Columbia men have turned...
EDITORS DAILY CRIMSON :- There are but four or five libraries in this country which contain a larger number of books or have better facilities for getting at them than the one connected with this college. Nevertheless I have heard the same complaint repeated again and again that, though the above be true, the general usefulness of the library is seriously hampered by the fact that all the reading done in the library must be during the day time. It is a lamentable fact that from some petty fear of a fire breaking out and destroying the magnificent collection of books...
...December number of the Harvard Monthly will contain an article by Mr. Evert Jansen Wendell on athletics. Professor I. G. Peabody's "Religion in a University" will be reserved for a later number...
...which freshmen are won't to look upon with awe, but still with a certain satisfaction. They refer to ball-playing and some of the other accomplishments of the American youth as practised by those who are not members of Harvard University. If we remember rightly, these same boards contain upon them words of terrible meaning-something about "prosecution to the full extent of the law." For the benefit of those who have been astonished at the audacity of such extreme measures, we would say that long years ago those sign-boards were put in place-long before Harvard...
...departments of the institution are contained in a magnificent free stone building, of an eighth of a mile in length. It is divided into sections, three of which, Seabury, Northam Tower, (the centre of the building) and Jarvis, are used for dormitories. Other sections contain the chapel, library, laboratories and lecture rooms. In the basement is the common, dining-room. Each of the four college societies has a table of its own; there are also neutral tables for non-society men, and others for members of the faculty who live in the building...