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...came up from our sister college at New Haven which was reported over half the country. "A great difficulty has arisen among the Yale crew," went the rumor; "they have been forced to change the positions of two men in the university boat, and thereby have weakened it. The effect has been noticeable in the feeble, ragged stroke which the crew is now rowing. As this has been done so lately in the year their chances of winning the race have been materially lessened, as any change in the make up of a crew is unfortunate at such a time...
Several complaints are heard from students rooming in the yard to the effect that articles have been disappearing lately from many of the rooms. Students cannot be too careful to lock their doors whenever they are not in their rooms...
...parts,-preparation for the revolt, and the revolt itself. The treatment for the preparation of the revolt is a masterly effort, and is thoroughly exhaustive. Great thought has been bestowed upon an exact statement of the causes which have unsettled the body politique of Russia, and the natural effect of these causes upon the Russian mind. The attention given to apolism and mysticism brings into prominence two comparatively new phases of the question. But the latter half of the book is hardly satisfactory, and the reader feels the failure upon the author's part to carefully track the various phases...
...building, we notice that after all something is lacking in the scene. We try to think what it can be, and finally we discover it. Right before us stretching over a hundred yards of ground, the walls of the Jefferson Laboratory raise their giant and rigid outlines; their harsh effect lessened by no attempt at any concealment of their hideous nudity. As we rise with a sigh because the field cannot be entirely beautiful after all, we breathe a wish that our landscape gardner would only train a little ivy up the north end of that building, or plant...
...misleading in one or two respects. It deplores the omission of a clause specifying that a majority of student members shall have power to call a meeting of the conference, and states that there was an understanding between the faculty and the faculty members of the committee to that effect. As a matter of fact, the faculty left the whole question as to how and when meetings should be called to be decided by the committee itself-that is, to the student members. Such a matter falls naturally under the head of by-laws, and would therefore be arranged with...