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...crew, and who will shape our boating policy for the next summer," are fully sensible of the interest that graduates feel in our boating welfare, and we earnestly hope that they will not only give us their views on rowing, but will also give us liberal subscriptions to the end that those views may be carried...
...until the written record began to read like a chapter in the Old Testament, "And So-and-so bequeaths it unto What's-his-name,' and "What's-his-name bequeaths it unto Thing-a-my," and so they go on bequeathing, until the legacy comes to an end with me. At first this transmittendum had a price. In '32 a Divinity student, who had purchased the mat for a dollar and a half, parted with it, "at a great sacrifice, and because he wanted it to keep with the room," for, two dollars. It was not till eight years...
...Index is now ready. The advertisements have been banished to the end of the volume, and the general list of the students has been given the last, instead of the first place...
...know that some believe that the object of these examinations is to obtain from the students thorough daily work, and that they ought not to study up for them. Against the end proposed I have nothing to say, - it is what is needed here above all things, - but that it will ever be attained by such examinations as these I most decidedly do not believe. As long as examinations are announced beforehand, just so long will men, if for no other reason, because they know that other men will read up for them, and fear to be ranked lower than...
...none too many. But the regulation should be made elastic, so to speak. It should allow discrimination in particular cases, making a special regulation, if necessary, in each case. The Senior with four electives is required to have an average of fifty per cent on them all at the end of the year. This does not imply thorough work; and if any one desires to take up fewer things and do them more thoroughly, is there any rhyme or reason for denying his request...