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...VARSITY CREW - C. F. Gilman...
...stroke, and the slides are hurried down while the leg force is not put on with enough snap. Stroke does not swing enough; five does not face his oar enough and bow clips; No. 4 lets his slide go too soon and does not catch deep enough. Sawyer and Gilman have recently exchanged places, now rowing at four and two respectively...
...address of President Gilman before the Yale alumni at New York, on the "Idea of the American College," contains many valuable suggestions. President Gilman said: "The American college is an admirable place for the training of men. There are now three important factors at work in our colleges - increase of wealth, growth of modern sciences and the progress of religious freedom." This growth of modern science is shown, for instance, at Harvard by the fact that the needs of the department of Physics have increased so much as to be the cause of the erection of a new Physical Laboratory...
President Gilman complains of the small salaries offered to professors. "The professor today has little to look forward to when he becomes too old to lecture or when he is ill. It is suicidal for our institutions to take second-rate men when first-rate men can be obtained." It is one of the weaknesses of our colleges that they are unable to offer greater inducements to able men to take positions as professors. A man of ability who gives up his business or profession for a professor's chair is often called upon to make a great sacrifice, which...
UNIVERSITY CREW.The first event of the afternoon was the exhibition on the rowing weights given by the University Crew, rowing in the following order: Bow, Mumford, '84; 2, Sawyer, '83; 3, Belshaw, '83; 4, Gilman, '85; 5, Perkins, '84; 6, Hammond, '83 (capt.); 7, Clarke, '84; stroke, Curtis, '83. The class crew weights were used. The crew made a fine show in their new and spotless costumes and the fact that the men were carefully graded in height from bow to stern gave them a remarkably even and regular appearance as they took their seats on the weights. The general...