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...grotesque, on pettiness, on the modern passion for activity, and on the dangers of the antique--to mention only a few of the topics he touches upon by the way--are penetrating and suggestive, the product of a mind that forms its own opinions, and is ready to maintain them against all comers...
...Cornell crew lacked the dash and rhythm so necessary in a race over a short course; they appeared unable to maintain a high rate of stroke and hardly exceeded 30 to the minute after the first of the race. The University crew, on the other hand, maintained a rate of 34 to the minute practically throughout the entire two miles, and finished at nearly 37. This had an important bearing on the result, as did also the fact that the crew rowed much better together than Cornell, who had rowed in the same order only four times previous...
...that the Student Council has almost unlimited possibilities, it properly conduced. It will give definite organization to that vague term hitherto known as undergraduate sentiment; it will be a center of authority through which the Faculty may as a body come into closer touch with the students; it will maintain a sentiment that will fore stall future interference with intercollegiate athletics, by proving that scholarship and competition, if properly regulated, are not incompatible...
...conduct of athletics. The attainment of this purpose is to be effected in part by direct jurisdiction over individual students, the method of so doing to be explained hereinafter, and in part by creating the general sentiment that it is a question of individual and College honor to maintain a strict attention to scholastic duties...
...annual election of officers shall take place. Also at this meeting the three representatives from the College at large shall be elected. (6) No undergraduate who is not in good standing at the College Office shall be eligible to membership. No member of the Council who fails to maintain good standing shall continue as a member of the Council. Vacancies arising from this or any other cause shall be filled by a three-quarters vote of the entire Council...