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Legislative action is being taken against the practice of student-duelling in Germany and in Zurich, and a law has been passed against the duel in any form whatever. Consequently, one hundred students have pledged to leave the university and go to some institution where time-honored customs are not interfered with by meddling legislators. The way of the peacemaker is hard...
...final honors is directed to this end, requiring independent and self-directed work. Besides these provisions to secure concentrated and coordinated work, the system of "honorable mention" also works as a stimulus to this end. "The result of this double system is that it is fast becoming 'bad form,' to graduate without the one or the other of these two distinctions...
...Smith-12. Nay-Phillips Brooks, James Freeman Clarke, Charles W. Elliot, Henry P. Kidder, Alexander McKenzie, John T. Morse, Jr., Francis G. Peabody, John T. Sargent, Edwin P. Seaver, Moorefield Storey, Morrill Wyman-11. The final decision of the question rests with the corporation. "Of the seven persons who form the corporation," says the Advertiser, "only two are thought to favor the medical education of women at Harvard." Co-education of any sort with us must now undoubtedly be but a dream for the dim future...
EDITORS HARVARD HERALD: Your suggestion as to the formation of a Harvard Canoe Club is excellent, if the formation of such a club would result in advancing the interests of canoeing at Harvard; but if it were to be formed merely to the end of adding another form of amateur contests to our already overstocked list, its advisability seems to me extremely doubtful. Canoeing-legitimate canoeing-is one of the most delightful sports in the world, and this fact is known full well to its votaries; but if the recent "boom" in canoeing interests, observable throughout the amateur sporting world...
...promotion of this ideal pastime at Harvard, and, if organized, would doubtless receive many members. The only objection to it which could be made might be that it would detract, possibly, from the interest in sports longer established. But many men whose time is not occupied in any other form of athletics, might be induced to favor this form, while there need be no necessity of drawing off those who are already engaged. The status of such a club would, probably, have to be something like that of the Bicycle Club. It might organize occasional races and cruises...