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...degrees remain unaltered. Attendance is enforced at mid-year as well as final examinations in electives taken to work off conditions; in the case of a prescribed study a condition may be removed by attaining over fifty per cent at an anticipatory examination, provided the study is not pursued longer than a half-year. Notice of a student's intention to make up any condition during the academic year must be given to the Registrar on or before October 15 of that year...
Still, it may be added, Harvard is forgetting her duty and obligations as the founder of the Association; she who invited two or three neighboring colleges to row at Springfield cannot honorably leave the Association, even when it has trebled in numbers, and when the course is no longer in New England. That is to say, a few gentlemen of the class of '71 have bound Harvard irretrievably for an indefinite time to come, or at least until chance shall give the victory to some crew as good as those she has sent for the last two years, since...
FROM the Captain of the University Crew we have received the following information concerning the relative merits of eight-oared boats and six-oared. He considers the former better for the following reasons: The greater weight of the eight-oar makes the stroke longer, and although as much force may be expended in taking the stroke as in the six-oar, yet the quick motion of the body is avoided; and since this start "pumps" a man and drives the blood from the heart, it is an advantage not to be estimated too highly. Again...
...future meetings of the H. U. B. C. the voting will be done by the check-list. No one who has failed to pay his entrance-fee of $3.00 will be allowed to vote. An important meeting will be held soon to decide whether Harvard will remain longer in the Rowing Association of American Colleges. Any one whose entrance fee is not paid should communicate with the Secretary at once...
...could only conquer this school-boy fear of talking to a room full of people, I think that we should soon see the results in the increased efficiency of our officers. They would no longer feel that they are left almost entirely to their own judgment, and that all sins of omission or commission will be covered by the vague excuse that they did their best. Even if they are our friends, it certainly can do them no harm to ask an explanation of their actions, while, if they are not well known to the majority, a vote of want...