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...lengths in the splendid time of 8 m. 7s. The crew as a whole did fine work, showing a marked improvement over the form shown by the Weld crews in the class races. They rowed an even and well-lengthened stroke with lots of life, and never were in need of spurting. The crew was made up as follows...
...real need for such a committee seems to exist in connection with the athletic teams; and here, without in the least hindering or interfering with the plans of the captains and coaches, there are many ways in which a committee of representative students can both be of assistance to the latter and can centralize, make effective and increase undergraduate support of the various teams. It is of the highest importance that the powers of such a body be limited so as not to restrict any of the captains or coaches in any way, in the actual management of their teams...
...year. And it looks very much as though this state of affairs is, in part, at least the result of the small amount of active interest taken in the plan, especially among the undergraduates, for whom the club was designed. It seems reasonable to suppose that if the pressing need for the club were more clearly demonstrated and more generally known, the subscriptions to the fund would be larger and more numerous. There is now a strong feeling among the students that an institution on the general plan of the English university clubs and Houston Hall at the University...
...things for the few students who can derive benefit from them, it is to be regretted that more of them cannot be placed in a way that will make them valuable to all the students. If those who have money to give to Harvard could only realize the present need of a University Club, and that donations to it are primarily for the good of the whole University, it might help to materialize the scheme at an earlier date than is now hoped...
With the increasing realization of the value of the courses in public speaking, there is, of course, every year, a correspondingly greater number of men who wish to elect these courses. Last year this growing need received recognition in the extension of English 6, the senior course in debating, to two sections of forty men, instead of the usual one; but although there were enough candidates for two sections in English 30, the Junior course in forensics and debating and the alternate for English C, the course was restricted to forty men as formerly. The result was that about...