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Another and perhaps the most important step towards the selection of the 'Varsity crew at Cambridge is the "Trial Eights." Substitute the word "Sixes," and it becomes applicable to Harvard as well as to Oxford and Cambridge. They - "the Trials" - are just getting under way here, and a short account...
IT scarcely ever occurs to us, who revel in almost absolute independence, what curious yet sometimes painful punishments our forefathers underwent in their college days. Strange, indeed, would it be now to see a fellow-student publicly prayed for and flogged; still more wonderful would it appear to our parents...
A FAIR presumption seems to exist that one will find in a college man a firm opponent of cant; if, at least, we mean by that term "the repetition of a creed after it has become a phrase by the cooling of that white-hot conviction which once made it...
In regard to exercise. Two consecutive hours a day for exercise are certainly to be desired, but if dinner were at six through the winter months alone, there would be but one hour for the purpose, and were dinner at five there would be none at all. The latter, then...
PERHAPS no community of men is less subject to the thoughts which attend a realizing sense of the inevitability and imminence of death than a college community; and this for several reasons. Of these the most important is the age of its members, to which the consideration of death is...