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...squad trained throughout the year, working on the machines and running five or six miles on alternate days in the winter time. It undoubtedly requires time and equipment to teach men to row correctly. But to relax emphasis upon form and the finer points of the sport would call forth a storm of protest from three generations of Harvard oarsmen and from innumerable college men who believe in doing things well...
...regular game, lasting four eight-minute periods. Team A received against the wind, but in spite of the excellent backfield work by Churchill and Pfaffman, was unable to score throughout the half. Team B, when it got the ball, was likewise impotent, and the contest swayed back and forth with the advantage on neither side...
Nothing calls forth more grumbling on the part of the college undergraduate than the all-important question of marks; and no phase of the matter occasions more complaint than the excessive number of "E's" recorded in the archives at University Hall. Many of these academic tragedies, it is true, are frankly attributed to laziness on the part of the student, but a considerable proportion is by general consensus of undergraduate opinion laid at the door of the instructor. There have been instances at Harvard when large courses have flunked as high as forty percent of their members...
According to the announcement of the Divisions of Ancient and Modern Languages setting forth the requirements for the general examination, the Bible and the plays of Shakespeare are "two works of literature without which an adequate appreciation of English letters, is impossible...
...looking after the worker's rights. This system of having the employees represented by the union, through a special agent, is sometimes efficient, and sometimes not. In general, it might be said that it concerns itself chiefly with the settlement of primary matters, such as wages, hours, and so forth, and does not attempt to deal with the underlying problems of friendly relations between employer and employee. On the other hand, the shop committee system, besides settling the matter of wages, also goes a long way toward handling the problem of the relation between employers and employees...