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...club are so out of repairs that the scratch race for fours announced for tomorrow's races may have to be given up. It is time that something were done to remedy the existing state of decay in the Harvard navy; it must not be allowed to follow the example set by the navy of the United States...
...raise censure upon the system itself. The day of the valedictorian who stands up as an exponent of the system in which he has been trained, has, at least, among those colleges which pretend to a university training, passed away, and it is fitting that the institution itself should follow...
...exceptionally high standard of the '87 freshman crew; but on the other hand the Columbia '88 crew is inferior to their winning freshman crew of last year. The rapid improvement which the men have made during the past week, makes us believe that '88 will follow '86's example, and will win the race with Columbia...
Ballots for overseers of Harvard college have been received from the electors at large with the follow result: Alexander Agassiz, '55, 1006; John Fisk, '63, 927; Edwin P. Seaver, '64, 853; John T. Morse, Jr., '60, 817; Roger Wolcott, '70, 428; Alexander McKenzie, '59, 344; George O. Shattuck, '51, 335; Samuel Hoar, '67, 333; T. Jefferson Coolidge, '50, 311; Henry L. Higginson, 310; Nathaniel Thayer, '71, 306; Moses Williams, '68, 299. These twelve candidates will be voted for to fill the six vacancies to be filled at the election commencement...
...they receive little sympathy from their more fortunate classmates. The classics are frequently worked up by groups of men in the same class. Sometimes a "pony boy" is hired, who, with his translation in hand, drones out his task, while his hearers, with eyes glued upon their text-books, follow him line for line, interrupting occasionally to demand a repetition of some difficult passage...