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...enough to enter the contest that have been benefited. The eight men who train for our greatest competitive event-the Yale race-are the ones who advance our boating interests the most throughout college in general. Do away with this Yale race, and our class races would feel the effect materially, and might possibly, in the course of time, themselves drop out. As the University crew is the keystone to all boating interests, so in each branch we can find a competing body which gives life to the rest. Thus the faculty, in making regulations which materially hurt the element...
...usual custom students will have the privilege during Lent of attending prayers at St. John's Chapel instead of at Appleton Chape. A written permit from the office is necessary to effect the change...
...Controverted questions. Necessity of the siege of Yorktown. Propriety and effect of withholding McDowell from McClellan. What McClellan should have done after the battle of May 31 and June 1. What McClellan should have done when at tacked on his right by Lee, June 27, 1862, etc., etc., etc. Especially question of possibility of McClellan's moving on Richmond by the James, in (say) August...
...provided for. The definition of professional was tacitly understood not to be the common one, but a graded distinction of ordinary professionals by which those who teach for a living are not excluded, but it reaches those who give public exhibitions, or exercise tendencies which would have a bad effect. The principle involved seemed to be clear to all, and it is perhaps better that such should be the case than that a set form of words should be adopted. Of course several concessions had to be made, and among them was one of the points which was especially hard...
...common report, have succeeded in gaining concessions from Harvard. We should like to ask, but without any desire to offend the tender sensibilities of our representative at that mournful conference, "what concessions were made to Harvard?" Of course, the last resolution was necessary to make the others of any effect. We think better of Yale, however, than to believe that she will be forced to adopt these measures by any such threat...