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...Tewksbury almshouse investigation yesterday, Dr. Tucker of Australia, a medical expert, testified that the sanitary arrangements were remarkably good. The only fault was the male attendants for females, and the ignorance of Dr. Lothrop...
...bottom premise of all this reasoning that is at fault. College athletic sport as stimulated and maintained by inter-collegiate contests is not confined to a few; and such sport so sustained brings "compensating advantages" for all the real evils incurred, if not for all the imaginary ones...
...correspondent comes forward with a "correction," in which he claims that "many candidates for honors are excused from a certain share of the year's work." If this is the case we can only state again that this is more the fault of individual instructors than of the system. Any such privileges are entirely contrary to the spirit of the regulations in regard to the substitution of theses for forensics, and if they are granted it is upon the personal responsibility of the instructor and in spite of the expressed intention of the faculty...
...required to put the crew in good shape. The time of the whole crew is bad and the oars are allowed to sliver out at the finish, thus shortening the stroke at a vital point; No. 8 especially, does not pull his oar through, which is a bad fault in a stroke oar. No. 7 swings in and six meets; four and five have no snap and shoot slowly; five clips and four settles at the finish. No. 3 drops his head at the full reach, goes back too far, clips and does not get enough reach...
...fault to find with him. On the contrary, the crew ought to blame itself and be blamed by the whole class for not having chosen a coach at least a month before the race. It is absolutely impossible for a coach to pick out the individual faults of eight men in eight days. While he attempts to do so, each man contracts new faults, the time becomes poor, the crew soon begins to feel from the motion of the boat that its rowing is ragged and by no means up to the mark, nervousness sets in, and the consequence...