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...encounter is the presence among the candidates for his team or crew of men who are actuated in their candidacy not by any desire for the good of the College, but by mere personal vanity. We do not intend to go into an elaborate discussion, and attempt to fix the proportion which such vanity may rightly hold in each man's motives. But it is manifest that in athletics, where the co-operation of numbers is necessary, some stronger and, if we may say so, higher motive than this is the indispensable requisite of success. We would not discourage...
...learn, on the best authority, that a race with Columbia, which has been talked of in several papers, is by no means a fixed affair. The rumor was premature, for nothing has yet been done to fix a race...
BOSTON MUSEUM. - 7.45 P.M. This evening and Saturday matinee, Mr. Warren in Boucicault's amusing play, "Daddy O'Dowd," and Mr. Barron in "A Regular Fix." Saturday evening, Mrs. Vincent's benefit, "A Ticket of Leave Man." Monday next, "Daddy O'Dowd," with an extra matinee...
...Lent, except that it may include Fast Day; but the observance of Fast Day is completely obsolete, and interests none of us, whereas Lent is a very real thing in many families. All vacations are certainly intended for enjoyment as well as suspension of studies; therefore, to fix one at a season when a decreased amount of pleasure will be obtained by many others besides churchmen is to neutralize the intention for which it is given. To find fault with giving a vacation after Easter, because Easter is an ecclesiastical institution, and Harvard is an unsectarian college, is almost...
...idea, for one would think that if a Freshman race and a single-scull race could be arranged between the two colleges, to come off at the same time with the "Varsity," it would rather increase than diminish the interest. But as the H. U. B. C. offered to fix the race as early as six weeks, if need be, before the race at New London, it is difficult to see how this could have an injurious effect on the eight-oared race. The New York and Boston newspapers state, moreover, that it was voted...