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...Davy's shop, the other eleven boats are being built and include five four-oared boats, two pairs, one double scull, and three single sculls. The dimensions of the four oared boats are as follows: Length 38 feet, 6 inches, width 25 inches, and depth 814 inches. Three of the four oared boats are being planked and all of the boats will be rigged with Meaney's roller seats and rowlocks. These four oared boats will be finished by the first of March and the others will be completed by the middle of April. Mr. Weld, the donor...
President Eliot, in his annual report, dwells at considerable length upon college athletics. He takes an unfavorable view of their present condition and prospects, and suggests restrictions which we can not but believe would seriously injure the best interests of the students. His recommendation that public betting should be suppressed certainly deserves to be carried into effect; but his suggestion "that freshman intercollegiate contests should be discontinued" seems to have been made without regard for the opinions of those who have most thoroughly investigated the subject. Without intercollegiate contests the freshman teams would fall to the rank of other class...
...editorial" reiterates the Monthly's opinion on Harvard's "provincialism." It states that "Harvard's recent growth gives less promise for the future than that of her rival." We can hardly think the Monthly justified in going to this length after the new figures which have been brought to light. "The Month" is an interesting compilation of social and athletic facts, containing among others a list of the gifts received by the treasurer since Oct. 10. Two "Book Notices" bring the issue to a close...
...average college graduate is 26 years old when he takes his degree at the Law School, and then has his apprenticeship or clerkship of intermediate length before he can practice for himself. Wherever the fault and whatever the remedy, it is evident that the degree of Bachelor of Arts is taken in the U. S. later than in any other country in which the degree is used, and too late for the best interests of the individuals who aspire to it, and for the institutions which confer...
...which he ably defends the spirit of civil service reform. "Emerson's Talks with a College Boy" is a collection of remarks made by the great essayist to Charles J. Woodbury, while the latter was a student at Williams. It is accompanied by an engraving from a full length portrait of Emerson painted about 1859. Charles de Kay has a well illustrated article on some of the newly discovered Greek terracottas. "A Corner of Old Paris." by Elizabeth Balch, is a charming sketch of the Musee des Archives, with many excellent reproductions of old paintings and prints. The serials...