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...races during the first part of the Easter recess the eight showed an ability to maintain a high stroke and to space out well under it. When rowing was recommenced after the vacation, the crew fell into a bad slump. The slide work was poor, the men did not turn well on the catch, and were not effective while the oars were in the water...
...Harvard men vote in Cambridge such a state of things could not long exist, for no city department would find it possible to maintain itself under conditions as existing. Being powerless at election times, we can do little or nothing...
...long as there are proctors in the examination-room there will always be a certain number of morally or mentally incapable men who will maintain that they have a perfect right to cheat if the proctor does not see them. The proctor is there to keep them from cheating, but if he is not quick enough to stop them they have used a legitimate right, they say. If the honor system were instituted at Harvard it would immediately change the present individual feeling against dishonesty, to an irresistible public spirit against it, as it has at Princeton and Williams...
...clothes and tennis shoes so that they can enter into the spirit of the evening and can join in the games. A number of charming class bar-maids will serve refreshments and add to the attractions, but the Mutt and Jeff police force will be on hand to maintain order...
There are one hundred and sixty foreigners in the University--the pick of thirty-six nations. They have come for the particular purpose of knowing us; how many of them do we know? Their very presence proves that we have a reputation for friendliness to maintain. But the average undergraduate is doing very little, if anything, to maintain it. There are organizations which we have instituted for the purpose of making our duty more easy of performance, but they have largely lost their significance. The Cosmopolitan Club cannot be effective without individual effort and labors, and moreover, is handicapped...