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...instructive. One of this Governing Committee was a graduate of 20 years standing, two of ten and the other rowed recently. They were all rowing men, and when in college had proved themselves good oarsmen, but the standard of rowing, like everything else, is continually improving, and to keep up with this advance a man must not only follow the improvements most carefully, but it is so necessary for him to test each of them practically, for rowing, far more than any other sport is learned by the sense of "feeling" rather than by observation only...
...purposes dead at Columbia. This conservative policy brings the college curriculum down to the same levelas the hum-drum routine of high school. It must be admitted on all sides that the undergraduate department of Columbia is far behind the age. The other schools are managed so as to keep abreast of the times, and this system has made them highly successful. A few radical changes would raise a department which is now of little account into greater usefulness, otherwise it can never lift itself above its present state...
Harvard will use the launch "Niantic" to coach from, but unfortunately it is not fast enough to keep up to the crew when speeding...
...circulation of Lippincott's Magazine has been more than doubled since the publication of Miss Rive's story, "The Quick or the Dead?" and orders for the number containing that story are pouring in so fast that it is almost impossible for the presses to keep up with the demand...
...much higher this year and there is as yet no trouble from eel grass, and probably will be none at the time of the races. President Stevenson of the Yale navy and Superintendent Spalding of the New London Northern Railroad have been trying to devise some plan to keep the tickets on the observation train out of the hands of "scalpers." Last year the train was limited to 21 cars, but this year there will probably be an unlimited number of cars and as many tickets will be sold as there are purchasers...