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...boat travels faster for a distance of three miles, or even less, than if the crew is hurried up to 40 and kept at that rate. At the fast stroke the rowing becomes short and scratchy, and the energy of a heavy crew is wasted in swinging back and forth instead of the power being reserved as much as possible for the driving of the boat along when the oar is in the water. The training stroke of the crew has ranged from 35 to 37 strokes per minute, and the daily work after the first week has been extended...
...when the examinations are over, he is expected to be prepared at once on all these books, little or no time being given him for review. The instructor continues giving out references by the hundred pages every lecture until the last recitation bell of the year peals forth its joyous notes, and the luckless undergraduate is expected to do all this reading, and, at the same time, get up on the work of the earlier part of the term. Of course it may be said that many men are not willing to work during the summer for an examination...
...national conference of free-traders at Detroit yesterday adopted a plan of organization and issued an address to the people, setting forth the free trade principles...
...believed that if the graduates of the college succeed in raising $60,000 to endow one chair, to be known as the "alumni chair," the money to endow the other two chairs will be given without delay. A committee of the alumni have prepared a circular setting forth the generally prosperous condition of the college and requesting gifts for the "alumni chair...
...today at the games, care should be taken that no such opportunity be given the Cambridge mucker to voice his sentiments. It is sufficient annoyance when his hoots and cries are confined to the outside of the fence, but when his comments on the game are shouted forth almost directly over one's head, it is simply unbearable. Perhaps no better argument could be brought forward for a fence around the new athletic grounds than a few such exhibitions as these...