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...Boston Advertiser of Dec. 28, takes the Intercollegiate Rowing Association to task for accepting the offer of the hotel and railroad men of Saratoga to provide board and passes for the crews, and says that college "athleticism" will be very objectionable if it is to depend upon hotel men and their followers for its patronage. This hardly seems just. In these days of enormous expenditures for athletics, anything which will honorably lighten the burden of the students will meet with approbation. Boat-races are a species of contest which do not make any money returns to the crews for their...
...proven, we believe we would earnestly recommend that a great deal more care be bestowed on it so as to ensure perfect safety beyond doubt. We escaped an appalling disaster by so little that it ought to be a sufficient warning in the future for one department not to depend on another's watchfulness, and so suspend investigation until after the accident has happened. All in all, we have every reason to be thankful that it was no worse. The outcome has been so much better than anyone at the time supposed was possible, that we gladly allow the matter...
There will be a meeting of the Foot-Ball Association on Monday, Oct. 1st, at 8 P. M. in Holden Chapel to elect officers. A full attendance is earnestly desired as the efficiency of the team will depend in a large measure on the manager elected...
...college commencements which filled up last week one or two subjects were brought prominently forward of importance not only to the young people and their families, but to the country at large; for we must remember that the condition of the country twenty years hence will largely depend upon this very education which we are now giving to these boys and girls...
...close room to under-go a three-hour examination, or, indeed, even a shorter one, unless every precaution be taken the air necessarily becomes impure and unfit to breathe, greatly to the disadvantage of those at work. And since the result of a year's work may depend on one examination, it is but fair that the student should not be handicapped in his efforts by poor ventilation...