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...that it is impossible to draw the line unerringly between professionals and amateurs, and if anybody should attempt to draw such a line he would find himself confronted with a multitude of unanswerable technical questions. In trying to enforce the rule against professionals, therefore, the faculty will be compelled either to do injustice to many, or to act inconsistently with the strict interpretation of the rule. Everybody understands by this time Harvard's position on the side of pure athletics. Would it not be the policy of wisdom to abolish arbitrary rules and regulations, and let college athletics regulate themselves...
...course many conjectures, and many of the twenty-four possible orders are named; but nearly all agree in placing '83 at the head of the list. For second place no such unanimity of opinion is manifested. The sophomores seem ready and anxious to back their crew as against either the freshmen or juniors, while the two latter classes are very wary and cautious in expressing opinion. The crews are evenly matched in weight, and all seem equally determined to make the race a close and exciting one. The following is the order of the men in the crews...
...untried proves a failure when put to a practical test. The prospect of a general adoption of the rule does not grow brighter as time goes by, but, on the contrary, appears dimmer than ever. We still cling to our former position, therefore, in requesting the faculty either to rescind the rule or so to modify it as to do away with its objectionable features...
...same source we learn "that all designs for windows to be placed in Memorial Hall must be satisfactory to Prof. William R. Ware and Henry Van Brunt, Esq., the architects of the building, but that the corporation wish to adhere to the original plan, which allowed figures to be either typical or historical. That Messrs. Ware and Van Brunt are requested to prepare, for the use of the class committees, rules in relation to the design and execution of windows, and to send a copy thereof to the board...
...bare majority of the Harvard faculty voted to make the studies of upper classmen elective; it is only three years since they voted to make attendance on recitations voluntary; yet I doubt if ten members of that faculty could be found today who would advocate the repeal of either of those measures. It is because they have seen its fruits that the faculty of Harvard University believe in the elective system. [Times...