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...writer of this article has taken pains to collect statistics about the standing of rowing men in college. On this matter he says: "From 1870 to 1876 inclusive, 7,855 men entered the fifteen colleges where rowing has taken root, and of this number 5,537 graduated. Harvard, Yale, Princeton and Columbia are among the colleges, whose records were examined. Of rowing men there were 329, of whom 244 received their degrees." At all colleges there is a standard of scholarship below which a student cannot fall, and yet graduate. It requires only moderate ability to reach this standard. Athletes...
...first day of December. For the benefit of those members of the class who did not attend Dr. Royce's very interesting lectures, a few words will not be out of place. As to the length of the forensic; it must contain not less than fifteen or more than twenty-five hundred words, that is to say, it must have a length equivalent to from twelve to twenty pages of theme paper. In regard to the subject of the forensic; any topic may be taken from the pamphlet of 1884-85, provided it be not found among the fifty excluded...
Next day I tried again, and was rather successful, as will be seen shortly. My interest in the book began to lag, but I was bound to get it. After having handed in my slip in due form, I waited for five, ten, fifteen minutes, and yet no book came. The official behind the desk eyed me more and more suspiciously, and, growing rather uneasy under his paralyzing gaze, I asked, meekly enough, how long I should have to wait: "Oh, is that what you want? Why, you cannot have the book before to-morrow at noon." I fell back...
...This year eighty-nine makes no use at all of the hour between three and four, so that they play but one hour a day as against the two that eighty-eight played. Moreover, the freshmen do not turn out in anything like sufficient numbers. There ought to be fifteen or twenty men out every day, and yet time and again not more than six or seven have put in an appearance. More especially is this true since the game with Southboro, which seems to have discouraged them instead of inciting them to work all the harder...
...portion of the population. College Hill and Tufts College were passed at a round pace, and then all came across to upper North Avenue. The break was made about three-fourths of a mile from home at a point near Linnaen street. The first hound in, Bailey, '88, was fifteen minutes behind the hares, who thus won easily. Bailey, Dana and Dudley receive prizes. Lothrop, '87, was second, and Wheeler, '86, third hound...