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...Crosby, 168 1-4 lbs., is too slow in getting down to the water on the catch, bucks and fails to keep oar in the watter till the finish, has a tendency to swing towards his oar, and does not get ready for stroke coming...
...general faults of the crew may be summed up as follows: A failure to keep time, pulling oars out on the finish, rushing slides and not holding them long enough on the catch, and a ragged swing...
...Balliet, 166 lbs., is short and therefore has to reach too far to keep up with the other men, buries oar too deep in the water at the finish, and is slow to start on recover...
...compete long with the growing western universities in the matter of rudimentary college education. But in the higher departments Harvard has a great start on the new western universities, and as eastern brains and enterprise are as great as western, there is no reason why Harvard should not keep her lead and continue to attract advanced students from the West. This means, however, that increased attention must be paid to the graduate and professional schools...
...three years' course. The various arguments offered by the friends of the three years' course,-such as a popular demand for such a change, the supposed analogies of foreign educational systems, the relations of our colleges to our professional schools, the failure of the attendance at colleges to keep pace with the growth of population, the increasing efficiency of our secondary schools, etc.,- are met and answered. Professor Macvane's arguments are logically arranged and the whole article is an earnest plea for the existing order of things and against college iconoclasm...