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FROM the boating reputation of Harvard in times gone by, from the number of the students and from the wealth of the majority, one justly expects to find here a hearty interest taken in boating. But during the boating season last year the racing boats of the clubs were filled with men few of whom were fit to row in a race, and the boats intended for those who row for exercise only were, except in a few instances, not used at all. The University Crew, when placed beside a first-rate crew, made no show whatever, and when placed...
...this respect the Madisonensis is worse than the Student; half of the June 3d number is full of uninteresting and extraneous matter; as to the Round Table it got inspired the other day, and has relieved itself by a poem, an extract from which we insert...
WITH this number we close the seventh volume of the Crimson. The paper has had all the success that its founders could have reasonably asked for it, and for this the present editors thank the subscribers. At the beginning of the next volume we intend, in common with the Advocate, to make a slight change in our financial policy. It has been customary to send our subscribers' bills to them at any time before the completion of the volume for which they have subscribed. This has caused the business editor much trouble, and has wasted time which could as well...
...regards the religious tendencies of the class, we find that the Unitarians are the most numerous, and that an equal number have no particular religion. Next in number come the Congregationalists and the Episcopalians. The list is as follows...
...expect a large compensation for the disagreeableness of the occupation which they pursue. The excessive amount of mathematics required in the Freshman year is profitable alone to the tutors, who reap a rich harvest before every examination. The proof of what we say may be found in the number of students who are obliged to spend large sums of money in order to be put up to enough "points" to pass the examinations, and the absolute ignorance of the subject which they display a very short time after the examination is over...