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...year's crew. A year ago now, it looked as though Cornell was not to be represented in the inter-collegiate contests of 1885. No men were in training, and no interest show in the navy; yet Cornell sent out one of the strongest crews that has ever gone forth to capture the inter-collegiate pennant or win the challenge cup. When the state of affairs last year is contrasted with their present condition, how different is the prospect. If the men who have gone into training so early keep up their practice with as much enthusiasm as they have...
...situation of Harrow is singularly pleasant and suitable for a school. Although the town is only ten or twelve miles from London, the green meadows and hills, the beautiful woods and streams, in fact the typical English landscape, so often set forth in the English novel, makes it seem impossible that the great metropolis should be so near. Harrow is by nature admirably suited for either recreation or study. The school buildings are located on the brow and slope of a high hill, commanding an extensive prospect on all sides. From the summit, part of six counties are visible...
...athletics, Harrow is, of course, actively interested. The Thames is convenient for boating, and Eton gives fine practice to all the Harrow foot-ball and cricket teams. There is a great annual cricket match between the two schools, which calls forth, on account of the proximity of London, a tremendous crowd of spectators. This game may be called the closing event of the London season, as the Oxford-Cambridge boat race may be said to inaugurate the season. The fashionable Londoner makes it a point to attend both events, if it be possible...
...stronger in character than before; it is only when vice takes on a pleasanter and more aesthetic garb that resistance is a virtue. In the first case, there is no temptation, consequently no virtue. It is only in resisting that which is agreeable that manhood is developed. Harvard sends forth, not men of guileless innocence and insipid morality, but men of sturdysinewy manliness...
...shown most clearly in the incompetent legislative acts which we tolerate from force of long habit. Though "the returns . . . . are not encouraging to any Harvard undergraduate," yet we trust that they may at least be stimulating, and that the seed now being sown at Harvard may yet bring forth much fruit...