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...present members of the Law School. For it seems very unjust toward the undergraduate classes for that department of the university to abstain from the races on the Charles until there is an accumulation of old and excellent oarsmen from which to form a crew. Moreover I can not help thinking that this will have a bad effect generally on the interest in rowing taken by undergraduates. The one cause of enthusiasm in a crew is its desire and chance of winning. Likewise the cause of a lack of enthusiasm and a consequent indifference among the members of a crew...
...system you saw when Frayer and Schwerdtfeger and Miss Thomas carried off the high-test prizes for Greek at the various inter-collegiate contests. In Modern Literature, too, our courses have been bettered and extended. With two full professors and an instructor in German,-with the vigorous help in French which leaves the professor in that department more time for instruction in Italian and Spanish, we are better equipped than ever. Let me say here that I rejoice at this especially. Apart, of course, from the deepening of religious and moral feelings, I know of nothing more to be desired...
...door. Taking this easy-going thoughtless view of the case, he leaves his rubbers in his room and in consequence reaches the library with wet feet. Here he sits for an hour or so at least and next morning has a cough or cold to help him in his grinding. Plank walks to the library would prove a great blessing. As it is now, not a path leading to that building is not covered on a mild day with a layer of melting slush or mud almost as deep. The remedy is simple and not expensive. With plank walks...
...numerous courses and ample opportunities exist for the study of Arabic and Semetic languages a study of fully as great scholarly interest should be so much more restricted. The intelligent and well directed study of all periods of our history in detail can best beget a reasonable patriotism, and help to promote among educated men wise political counsels and disinterested citizenship. And in no subject is the direction of scholarly teachers through well-planed courses so much needed as in the tentative and as yet almost unwritten subject of American history. It is therefore greatly to be hoped that next...
...course, go to Harvard or Yale or London or Paris for the education they sought and ought to have; so he had determined to enable them to secure it at home. Their grandfathers had made his fortune; it was his duty as well as his pleasure to help the grandsons...