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...Professor is to have the power of reducing marks six months after they have been announced, and when it is too late for the sufferers to take another examination, it seems to me time for a strong protest. I am not aware that such injustice has ever been done before...
...departure from the old order of conducting the speaking for the Boylston Prizes should not fail to secure a larger attendance at those exercises than ever before. It seems that there is to be a preliminary trial, and only those who come up to a required standard of excellence will be allowed to speak for the prizes. The number of speakers will thus be diminished at least one quarter from that of previous years; there will be this year, at the most, only thirty. It has always been a matter of regret that more have not thought it worth their...
...liberal professions; or of the universities or public schools; or of any established boat or rowing club not containing mechanics or professionals, and must not have competed in any competition for either stake, or money, or entrance fee, or with or against a professional for any prize, or have ever taught, pursued, or assisted in the pursuit of athletic exercises of any kind as a means of livelihood; or have ever been employed in or about boats or in manual labor; or be a mechanic, artisan, or laborer." This tells the whole story. The English fear crews like the Watkins...
...prizes given in each instance will be handsomer than ever before, and they are worth hard work. Those offered by the kindness of private gentlemen and club tables are made conditional on a given time being equalled or beaten, and that is quite right; if gentlemen subscribe handsome medals or cups, they do so to induce men who do not train for the honor or love of athletics, to train sufficiently at least to make our time creditable and respectable. Were we to criticise the gentlemen at all, it would be rather on account of the generous allowance of time...
...section during their Freshman year, are cut off from taking this elective, for the simple reason that they have already read the play. The suggestion has been made, and it is not a bad one, that some other play of Aristophanes, which none of the present Sophomore class have ever read, be substituted for the "Birds." It has always seemed to us a cause of regret that so little of Aristophanes was read in the Greek electives. Greek 9 used to embrace all the Aristophanes that appeared in the elective pamphlet, with the exception of the play that was read...