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...races planned a year ahead, men practising an hour every day, rowing on artificial machines, running and exercising with weights and dumb-bells. Then, they trusted to their strength and endurance only, to pull their boat ahead of their New Haven rivals. Now, the Harvard stroke, making a boat-load of men act in as perfect union as a machine, has revolutionized the art of rowing, and has placed it in the best of the sciences...
...over $1100.00 less than the figures recently given, $4975.00, as the actual expenses of the university crew for 1883-84. But subscriptions cannot be lessened if the debt is to be reduced as the managers propose. Although the current expenses are smaller, there is the terrible load of over $2000 of debt to pay off, and men must respond liberally if they wish the managers to keep even with their figures...
There can be little doubt, says the London Athenaeum, that Prof. Huxley in these trenchant criticisms was glancing at Eton. Not that Eton is a sinner above other public schools; but instead of taking the load with its large endowments and prestige, naturally enough it has followed in the wake of Rugby, and other foundations, and in the matter of Latin verse, which we may take as the touch-stone of a reforming, or a non-reforming school, has shown itself the most conservative of them all. The first step to any real reform of studies is the abolition...
...college was visited by a barge load of school children, Saturday afternoon...
...Holmes Field in condition for matches, but the new diamond seems to have had superior attractions for drawing a crowd, and in consequence the half dollars have rolled by thousands into the treasury. The financial ability to do what is necessary for the nine removes a great load from the management and ought to enable them to arrange practice games with the very best clubs next spring This is what is most needed to prepare the nine for ultimate victory-that for which every Harvard man longs so heartily...