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...eight. Although the correspondence between the two universities began early in the winter, the matter has dragged along without any definite conclusion until now it is so late that a race cannot well be arranged. The special cable published in the Globe some time ago gave in an impetus to the lagging interest in the prospective race, and told the exact state of feeling at the time in the English university. As a result of the Globe's interest in the matter, more letters have passed between the captains of the two crews, but no definite arrangement has been arrived...
...general prosperity and constantly increasing growth of the Harvard Club of New York has caused a renewed effort this spring toward enlarging its usefulness. There are now about 500 names on the club list and it is constantly growing. A new impetus has been given the club by the addition of non-resident members who pay only half dues, and it is for their benefit partly that it was decided recently to procure permanent quarters...
...rejoice when they need no longer pass the long nights in darkness, such as Egypt and Cambridge alone have ever brought forth!. They will almost burst their musty bindings in sending forth a mighty sigh of relief and of gladness. And the students. - we hardly dare contemplate the vast impetus to work which those glowing carbon flaments will give them. Every chair will be filled, every inch of the table eagerly occupied. The man who goes through college without ever having seen the inside of the library will commit a double crime, for he will have had double the time...
...caused by the swinging doors in Sever Hall. We can never tell when we enter whether at that moment some one will not be coming out and so slam the door in our face. This is especially grievous, as the two steps in front of the door give an impetus to the push which the goer-out gives to the door, preparatory to jumping down these steps, and often cause the goer-in to experience the spicy relish of being knocked over backwards. It seems as if a change in the direction in which the doors swing would obviate...
...library for different years and find how largely the library is used by college men and how each year has shown an extension of this use. We hardly need to expatiate on the value of a library to college students, nor do we need to declare what an impetus a large collection of books must give to the intellectual life of any institution of learning. It is enough to say that whoever neglects to use these books gets from his course in college only a small portion of the profit that he might get. A certain member of a class...