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...present exercise each day consists in a run of about two or three miles, dumb-bell exercises and work in the boats of about forty-five minutes in length. On Monday strict training will begin and be kept up throughout the year...
...still as strong, but the method for reform has assumed a broader character. The athletic committee is at present considering the best means of accomplishing the reform and steps are being taken to learn the sentiment of the athletic men on the subject. It is impossible to speak at length upon this matter until Harvard takes her final position; and this action may be looked for within the coming week...
...last number of Harper's Weekly, Casper Whitney discusses at length the recent action of Yale in regard to undergraduates on 'varsity teams. Although expressing himself strongly in favor of the effort to exclude all professional element from college sports and denying that Yale's action was taken with intent of "freezing out" the University of Pennsylvania, he does not commit himself as favoring the new rule. He argues with more or less reason that it is a narrow policy to exclude men in the professional school from participating in athletic contests and unjust to the honest student. He admits...
...following list contains the names of those graduates who have filled important offices in the public service. Only the higher officers are named. The list would probably be doubled in length if made to include members of State legislature, judges of inferior courts, mayors, subordinate Federal officials, secretaries of legations, consuls, members of public commissions, etc. Moreover, graduates of other departments of the University, not alumni of the College, are not named here...
...Lovett's paper on "Cardinal Newman" is, as has been said, very careful and scholarly, but it has not the life to commend it to the ordinary reader, and the pains taken with it will not make up to him for its length. The fact that in spite of this length the substance is of excellent material, does not prevent its being...