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...another challenge for an eight-oared race. The time and place are left to our decision, as before. Last year our crew were able to do better in their race with Yale from having previously rowed with Columbia. Moreover, to pull in a single race is a small object for men to look forward to during a year's hard training; and so the more races a crew can row, the more pleasure there is for them individually. Here, then, are the two things which make a race with Columbia desirable, - improvement of our chances with Yale and more...
...college paper that does such things (it is not necessary to be more explicit) prepared a table of statistics of the circulation of a number of college papers, the object being to exhibit its own superiority in this respect. We have no hesitation in saying that, so far as this paper is concerned, the statement was entirely false, and inquiries have developed the fact that the statistics of other papers are equally erroneous. We say this merely to relieve our exchanges from the necessity of further copying a worthless item...
...open question whether the restricted course necessary for the aspirant to honors, though undoubtedly exerting a stimulating and concentrating influence on the mind, may not, by the very narrowness of the curriculum and the continual contemplation of merely one subject or set of subjects, defeat the object of honors by warping, more than disciplining and cultivating, the mind. Undoubtedly the age and antecedents of the student determine the advisability of such a course. All that can safely be said is that, for a man of little general reading, little knowledge beyond the text-books of the first two years...
...object of this Association shall be the promotion of athletic sports among the members of its respective Colleges, by meetings and friendly contests...
...prize essays are well enough, since they stimulate literary activity without involving cramming; but why examinations of the partial character announced should be made the object of intercollegiate contest it is hard to see. They call forth work, but not of the right kind. To examine a man on a play of AEschylus and orations of Demosthenes and AEschines cannot make him a broad Greek scholar, but will only force him to cram these subjects till he knows them by heart. Such an examination is no test of his ability to read the language. Again, it is necessary...