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...School, especially for the salary of a permanent director. It was obvious from the beginning that our School could never aspire to the rank and importance which the French and German schools at Athens have long maintained, and could never undertake continuous and serious work, while its head was continually changing, and there was only temporary provision for even this changing directorship. The ground of the present appeal is the necessity for immediate action in order that we may secure a most efficient permanent director. Dr. Charles Waldstein, the accomplished archaeologist, who now holds two important positions at the University...
...That rowing was now done with the head and body, while we fellows, who had followed Harvard's stern in for seven successive years, had done it all with our backs and arms. 'And you didn't even use your legs much, either,' he added, with a smile. He told me that he didn't favor giants for the boat, though he thought that had Bacon's great crew of giants in '65 known how to row the new stroke their performance would have been marvellous. A sixteenth-of-an inch wire, he said, was stronger than an inch...
Another strange custom was a rule compelling a lower classman to keep his hat removed from his head while a member of one of the upper classes was in the yard. This custom was finally broken up by a young freshman named Hedge, who, when ordered to uncover by an imperious upper classman, responded to the command by a heavy blow of his fist on the nose of his superior and was supported by the President for his independence...
...building itself is T shaped, the head of the T forming the front on the street. The leg of the T runs back to the rear of the building line, leaving on each side an open space or court twenty feet wide. This shape, giving as it does...
Prof. Brewer, in his last lecture, proposed to the seniors present that the class should have a composite photograph taken before graduation. It is a scheme for having every man's head photographed on the same plate and by this means obtain a photograph with the likenesses of all the class united in one face. He showed specimens pictures taken in this way; one of them was a photograph of one hundred young ladies which formed a very clear and shapely dedned individual head. By these means there can be obtained an average picture of the whole class which would...