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...educated man will learn more about the workings of a business in one year than the average boy apprentice will in three years. He brings a mind well trained and disciplined, accustomed to view things fairly and liberally, quick to comprehend, and once having grasped a subject tenacious of it. Place against these qualities the mind of the boy of fourteen or fifteen years old, and there can be no comparison made. The contrast is too startling and decisive. The one disadvantage of a college man entering business is, that his age is too advanced by the time he leaves...
...glad to learn that the instructors who have charge of the commencement parts this year will make an extra effort to have all the parts possess that quality in which commencement exercises are singularly lacking, the quality of being interesting. Now there is nothing in the nature of a commencement part that requires stupidity, yet stupidity is the rule, not the exception in commencement parts. The facts are often scholarly, but seldom interesting. This year, however, the parts, we are told, must be interesting above all other things. The topics must be as far as possible live toplcs...
...glad to learn that the instructors who have charge of the commencement parts this year will make an extra effort to have all the parts possess that quality in which commencement exercises are singularly lacking, the quality of being interesting. Now there is nothing in the nature of a commencement part that requires stupidity, yet stupidity is the rule, not the exception in commencement parts. The facts are often scholarly, but seldom interesting. This year, however, the parts, we are told, must be interesting above all other things. The topics must be as far as possible live topics...
...weeks longer than usual, and are consequently behind in their work upon the river. This delay in getting out the boats, together with the nearness of the class races, the second of May, gives the crews a very short time for preparation. Five weeks is hardly long enough to learn the difficult art of watermanship. It cannot, therefore, be expected that the class crews will attain the standard of perfection which they reached in former years. This lack of time upon the water presses hardest upon the freshman crew, who are all new men, and need a longer time...
...different members of this crew clip part of the stroke after hanging a short time on the full reach. The body swing is not bad, but of watermanship, have still considerable to learn. The oars are dipped too deep, and in consequence come out before the end of the stroke. The freshmen crew has had so short a time on the water, that a more detailed criticism cannot well be given, and, indeed, would not give a fair idea of the capabilities of the crew. The individuals have not yet fallen into special faults, but all show a lack...