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...more points in regard to our future swimming-bath may be of interest to the college. Some time ago a friend of the university made a generous contribution toward the building of this bath. Thereupon the college authorities placed in the hands of a contractor the matter of investigating the water supply which could be obtained for the baths. The result of this investigation was the boring of the wells which we have been watching from day to day near the gymnasium. It was found that abundant water could be had from these wells for the purpose. That the bath...
...have heard students, otherwise intelligent, speak of the recent action about the college yard as an attempt to make students do "police duty," and as an "outrageous" procedure on the part of the faculty. Were such a strange misapprehension wide spread, that might easily account for the lack of interest in the late election of a yard committee. If by "police duty" be meant anything like an eventual reporting of disorderly students to the Dean, I venture to say that not a single one of all the faculty-members who unanimously passed the vote ever conceived of the possibility...
...team that would do credit to Amherst. Immediately after the Christmas holidays, the nine went into training under the direction of their captain, Mr. Stuart. Over twenty men took part in the regular exercises of the team, and all entered into the severe winter training with great enthusiasm and interest. Welch of the New Yorks, who is considered one of the finest trainers in the country, was engaged to coach the nine. Special attention has been paid to batting this year, in which the nine last year was weak, and men who could not bat, have been refused positions...
...arguments on both sides in the controversy between the President and the Senate, and made that question intelligible to many who had but an imperfect idea of it. If such lectures could be given on the most important questions as they arise, many men would take more active interest in politics. In the case of some topics (as the difficulty between the President and the Senate) one lecture would suffice; in the case of more intricate questions, two or three might be necessary. If possible, even foreign topics of such great importance as the Irish questions should be taken...
Cannot this interest be revived? Could rough sculling be once established on a firm footing, it would soon take a regular place in our inter collegiate contests, when to be Harvard's representative would be no mean honor...