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...find this resolution, like number five, objectionable, as dealing with details which might better be left to the students or to their advisers, the graduate committee of the graduate committee of the boat-club, whose high standing and long experience in rowing, better fit them to decide all such matters...
...subject, and showing them the need of action and how to act. But there is also need of care lest they become scornful of universal suffrage. For to deal with all the important problems of the present day, such as the relations of labor and capital, is a calling fit...
...picking out of the proper material for positions on the representative elevens, nines and eighths. Hitherto this arduous and by no means agreeable duty has fallen to the lot of the captains elected by the several classes. He it is who, in a large measure, selects and appoints men fit in his estimation to do credit to the college in the athletic field, and he holds the power of the dismissal from the team of those men who do not seem satisfactory. This power which ought never to be abused, is often used in a way which, though often without...
...occasion arises. These young ladies, it says, after vainly entreating Chief Shaw to form them into a fire company, have voted that he is a mean old thing, and have organized a fire company closely modeled upon those to which men belong. "That the Girton girls should endeavor to fit themselves to put out their own fires is, of course, laudable. Although there is no danger that Girton College will be set on fire by careless smokers, it is still always possible that a student absorbed in midnight study may accidentally set fire to her front hair and by hurriedly...
...nine? If a man began the study of the classics or in fact any branch of learning unaided by an instructor, he would soon come to a stop and make no advance whatever without professional aid. Unless students learned their knowledge from older and abler men, fit to impart it, there would be but few who would educate themselves unaided. This fact might be applied to athletics as well as to classics and the result would be as gratifying in the former as it has proved to be in the latter. The influence of a professional coach on the nine...