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...administered as far as possible in accordance with the plan followed by Dr. Sargent (in the Hemenway Gymnasium of Harvard University). The purpose is to give to each individual guidance and counsel based upon and determined by a careful examination of his physique. It is held that the end and aim of physical training is to enable the body to do with pleasure and ease all the work of which as a mechanism it is capable...
...peculiarity of this year's training by the Cambridge University crews is, that after several weeks of rowing on the river it hauls up its boats for a rest of two weeks. This was done about the end of January, and now it is again rowing regularly, as the race comes in April...
...subject of tariff reform is so often mentioned in the daily papers and reviews. For this reason the club has determined to give the students an insight into the workings of these industries as they exist with an idea of their former growth and of their future. To this end the club has engaged men who have been familiar with their respective branches for many years. Mr. Thomas Pray will deliver the lecture on "Cotton" and Professor T. Sterry Hunt, the geologist, whose knowledge of the iron resources of the country is unrivalled, that on "Iron." Within the week...
Resolution 3 seems to me to have been designed to kill athletic sports in the smaller colleges. At least it will be effectual to that end. The preamble and the resolution are consequently, in my opinion, at sword's points...
...society could further benefit its members in the way of books. It could purchase a quantity of books at its usual reduction, estimate how long a use each one would endure, and let them to members at a price which would cover the cost of the book at the end of the estimated time, and also pay something to the society. This is a plan which has successfully been adopted in several young ladies' boarding schools that I have heard of; and I think it only needs a fair trial to prove it a success here...