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...good and in advance of former years, but the stroke is very short and far from the long sweeping swing that has brought victory to Yale for the past few years. The men do not keep time, and they manage their slides poorly. They have fallen into the habit so fatal to success, of coming up hard at the end of the stroke, the result being that the boat stops between strokes, instead of gliding along evenly and smoothly as it should. Captain Cook not will begin to coach the crew regularly until after June 10, but from that time...
...this delay becomes a settled practice as it has with a few professors we feel that the trouble thereby caused is serious enough to demand a protest. Strict observance of college hours is a virtue which may well be adopted by both professors and students. Tardiness is a contagious habit particularly if it is manifested by one whose position makes him an example for others...
...work of a Harvard student ought to begin promptly at nine o'clock in the morning. Since compulsory prayers were abolished, however, the tendency has become marked among a large number of students to delay the commencement of the work of the day until long after nine. The habit of tardiness has taken a strong hold especially upon those who have lectures during the first hour and has proved such a source of annoyance to several of the professors as to cause them to adopt the practice of locking the doors of the lecture room at five minutes past nine...
...have heard many complaints in regard to this exclusion of tardy students from the lecture room, but we believe that the action of the professors is perfectly justifiable. Something surely was needed to check the habit which was growing so troublesome to professors and students alike and probably no better means could have been found than that which notify the student that if he desires the benefit of a lecturer, he must be courteous enough to be present when the lecture begins. The rule has succeeded when it has been tried. We are glad that so serious an evil...
...different college papers. It is seldom that in any question concerning the internal affairs of the college the sentiment of the undergraduates and instructors is unanimous, but the benefits to be derived from lighting the library are so manifest as to make all those who are in the habit of using the library anxious to see electric lights introduced. Two or three years ago a strong effort was made to induce the corporation to to light the library during the evening, but as the use of electricity would have been very expensive...