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...issue of the Harvard Monthly is a credit both to the editors of the magazine and to the University at large. Too great praise cannot be given for the high tone and the literary excellence of the various articles. If the editors of the Monthly desire to keep for their magazine a literary reputation they have only to follow the precedent so well sustained in the present number. The opening essay written by Mr. F. G. Peabody and entitled "Religion in a University" is very opportune. It is a frank statement of Harvard on the question of voluntary and compulsory...
...University teams to engage in intercollegiate contests, and those only with Yale and minor New England college, thus barring out Columbia, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania and others; and to prohibit the nine, football, lacrosse team and cricket eleven from engaging in any contests-even practice games if they keep to the letter of their recommendation-except with other Harvard organizations on any week-day except Saturday and holidays...
Dana, Sturgis and Hartridge are the only new men. Hartridge rowed on last year's freshman crew at Yale. They are the lightest crew on the river. They jerk in their arms at the finish and do not sit up well. Their watermanship is very good. They keep excellent time. The men are very quick and row with a great deal of dash and spirit. Mr. W. A. Brooks has been coaching the crew...
...freshmen are the heaviest of the class crews. They do not get their legs into the stroke. There seems to be no life in the boat. They overreach badly. They do not keep a firm grip on their oars, and fail to get the benefit of the end of their stroke in consequence. Their time is bad. They are extremely careless and have had individual faults. The stroke which they have been practising is much too slow for a race. Mr. Hooper has been coaching the crew of late. Alexander, the stroke of the University boat, has also been giving...
...wages must fall or the industry cease. Why, it costs but seventeen and a half per cent. more for the needs of life here than in England, while wages are sixty-two and a half per cent. higher. Clearly no reduction of the tariff could be made which would keep the proportion between wages and cost of living so favorable...