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There will be a call for Freshman crews on Monday, October 5. After a short tryout, three or four crews will be retained for further work under Coach Wray. The length of the Freshman season is still indefinite, and will probably depend on the weather...
...mean that you are here to grind; far from it. You are here to study in a way that will train your minds to a discipline which they must acquire before you can make a success of life. You should remember that all your pleasure and success here depend on your standing at the College Office. In about six weeks you will be put to the test of hour examinations. If you pass them satisfactorily, you can go on with whatever activities you may choose; if you fail, you have broken training in every branch of College interests which...
...wonder why your studies are suffering. Then your standing at the Office and among the fellows will be good. Taking one thing at a time is, it is true, a prosaic way of doing things, but it is a way that has proved itself right. Your success will depend much upon your earnestness of purpose, which can be secured only from whole-hearted attention to the business in hand...
...class of 1913 will cease their undergraduate lives, most of them to leave this world of comparative comfort for one of true hardship and struggle. They have handed over their College sinecures to 1914 and are about to tackle real labor on which more than mere outward success will depend. Yet these sinecures, we hope, have taught them the principles of real success outside. The class of 1913 has come through the many vicissitudes that have threatened it with flying colors and leaves us now with our best wishes for the future. We say only au revoir because we shall...
Professor Thorndike, "every reason to believe that of those students who did yet worse in their entrance examinations, and so were shut out, a fairly large percentage would have done better in college than a third of those who were admitted." It is a "moral attrocity," he believes, to depend upon such a fallible system...