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...departure in training the crew is worthy of commendation. Heretofore the tendency has been toward overwork; the crew has begun to train too soon and has worked too hard at the beginning. As a result some of the men have reached their best condition three or four weeks before the race, and from that time onward have deteriorated. Last year the experiment was tried of not having the old members of the crew begin to train until after the holidays. This method has worked so well that this year the whole crew has been kept off the weights until...
...entitled to more attention in education. It is claimed that it is as possible to develop virtue by education as to develop intelligence." It is probable that no other city but Boston could have given rise to such a university - with such a name. Harvard men will find it hard not to believe that its establishment on the basis specified is a prodigious fling at the universal and shocking immorality of the Harvard student. It is to be hoped that this last move will have a sobering effect on this culprit. He is very wicked and doubtless needs this reminder...
With the close of the Christmas recess comes a season of hard work, both for the student and athlete. Candidates for all the athletic organizations will begin active work, preparatory to contests upon the water and, ball-field. Those who intend to compete in the winter meetings of the Athletic Association will or should begin training immediately, in order that these popular meetings may not be less successful this year than in the past. The standard of excellence has always been high, and it will require more than average exertion to prevent it from falling. With so many events...
...wish to get a thorough understanding of the course will object to the system now in practice. The principal points of the course are kept constantly before the minds of the men, so that besides understanding the subject more thoroughly they will not be compelled to grind so hard just before the examinations. Furthermore, what is a great convenience and benefit to many, hour-examinations are dispensed with. The whole system amounts to a substitution of a series of informal, detailed questions and explanations in the place of two or three hurriedly prepared written examinations. We think that the instructor...
...instructors would do this they could without a great deal of trouble to themselves render a great service to their sections, and prevent the hard feelings sometimes engendered on account of a man's feeling that he has been marked too low, simply because he does not understand the principle upon which his work for the year has been adjudged...