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...before, quite a number of men - say sixteen - are put into half training and tubbed for some weeks before the 'Varsity go to Putney, and the next best four are kept in training at Cambridge for a week after their departure to supply the place of any man who may "crack...
...furtherance of the plan of not overworking a 'Varsity oar, the 1st Division (answering to the "Champion Sixes") of the Cambridge boats do not take part in the Lent term races that precede the 'Varsity by a few weeks, but only in the May races that follow it, since, some of their members being wanted for the 'Varsity, it would be impolitic to make them row, and unjust to force the clubs to which they belong to race without their best oars...
Public, College, and Society libraries may be serviceable, and are undoubtedly necessary. No private individual can hope to acquire so large, so valuable, or so comprehensive a collection of books as a rich and well-managed library. The great benefit of any library is that it has books on all subjects, and we can find something in it on the transit of Venus or the restored digamma. As a man reads he soon becomes interested in some particular branch, and desires to learn (pleasing hypothesis!) all he can about it; for this purpose he wants to buy books relating...
...some libraries. Cheap literature is not for such epicures as these; they must take their learning, as the poor, sick homeopathics do, in sugar-coated form. The binding of a book improves its appearance, but we must be cautious in judging by appearances, for a table of logarithms may be bound in full calf...
...newspaper may be a "mighty engine" and "a great cultivator," but Americans want something more than ephemeral newspaper literature, and the time has come for cheap books. When the best works of the standard authors can be bought at moderate prices, men of moderate means will not be slow in buying freely...