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...incurred throughout the entire winter. The advantages of the plan are too obvious to need discussion, and the universal desire expressed each year that we might have a skating pond nearer college than Fresh Pond, is a sufficient warrant for the undertaking of the plan. The proper organization to move in the matter is without doubt the athletic association. The officers of this society have always been prompt to respond to the expressed wishes of its members, and I am sure the present demand will meet with no denial from them. Any ideas that any one may have...
...Harvard indifference are stale, flat, and alas! unprofitable. We all condemn selfishness in our neighbors and condone it in our ourselves. That is human nature, and Sam Slick says there is much human nature in all men; but we specialize in selfishness, and, like the hub of the wheel, move slowest; and if we progress at all it is by sheer force of inertia...
...minor matters of detail could be arranged without question. The financial hindrance is not so formidable as it appears, for there are graduates, almost without number, who would be glad to assist in the promotion of a series of races, like the one proposed. Will the boat club move in this matter, if the suggestion seems valuable to them...
...breadth of idea it will inevitably introduce here. The active interchange of thought which is the outcome of a properly directed club effort is certain to produce a higher intellectual standard among the members, and this cannot fail of a reflex action on the community in which they move and associate. In union is strength is true of intellectual effort as well as political or any other co-operation. The gentlemen who met yesterday afternoon are highly encouraged by the prospect before them, and feel certain that no step that has ever been taken by Butte will be of more...
...miles a day without sharp coaching is no longer tenable, still less is it possible to deny the merits of the sliding seat. Hanlan could never have made the time he has without this Yankee notion. It is now frequently balanced on glass balls that permit it to move with the least possible friction as the oarsman stretches forward to grasp the water...