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...learn, on the best authority, that a race with Columbia, which has been talked of in several papers, is by no means a fixed affair. The rumor was premature, for nothing has yet been done to fix a race...
...cotemporary, - very properly, as we think. But the Index can at least claim to be amusing, and what more can be said of the best of us all? . . . The Student and the Athenoeum pursue their straight-forward ways, and represent public opinion at Amherst and Williams very creditably. . . . We learn from the Tablet that Trinity is to have a new paper, the Ivy, which will probably be green and flourish. The Niagara Index is on the war path, and scalps the 'Varsity and the Record this time. The bright, chatty, school-girl air of Lasell Leaves is very pleasing...
...think that he would have referred to the fact that last year the students paid privately for the heating of Sanders Theatre, although the College ought to furnish a proper room and proper heating, for those who take elocution as well as any other study. We also expected to learn the reasons for the poor accommodations given to the students of speaking this year. Can it be that President Eliot has no very high estimate of the study of elocution? or does he regard the great impetus that has been given to it lately by the students themselves...
...least distract the attention of the men, but the windows at the north end of the rowing room might be glazed with transparent instead of ground glass. If this were done the curiosity of many men could be gratified, and at the same time any rowing man could learn a great deal by watching. We trust that this suggestion will be taken up by the Boat Club, and a chance will be given to see the Crew...
...than is required under any scheme of fixed rules. . . . In the revision of the regulations, as well as in the system of elective study, the Faculty have had constantly in view the purpose of encouraging young men when approaching their majority, to act upon their own responsibility, and to learn to make a considerate and profitable use of that full liberty of action which they are so soon to enjoy. The results already attained justify the belief that by this means, without loss of scholarly attainment or of regularity of work, the College may still more effectively perform its duty...