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AEstheticism is voted bad form and vulgar in English society. Athleticism has taken its place, and all sorts of vagaries in the worship of physical culture hold full sway...
...crew is regularly at work. Yesterday the crew rowed in the following order: Stroke, Keith; 7, Homans; 6, E. D. Marsh; 5, J. E. Thayer; 4, Peterson; 3, Bowen; 2, Bemis; bow, Newhall. Of these Keith alone rowed last year. Capt. Storrow has not yet taken his place in the boat, and Hansen and Sutton are still absent. Gilman is trying for the University...
...author of the successful essay is invited to read it in public at a time and place to be designated by the executive committee of the Finance Club...
...heart he is pretty much of a democrat. It is a common remark in the college that there a man is estimated at his real worth. and all pretense and conceit is covered with ridicule. During the past fifteen years a wonderful change in the undergraduate life has taken place. The sleep of the Cambridge citizen was once broken by the uproarious singing of students in the streets. Now it is very rare to hear any boisterous midnight singing - such out-door singing as there is being confined to the college yard, where it seems appropriate and pleasant...
...Appleton Chapel is a rather dingy and sepulchral place, contrasting poorly with Yale's cheerful and richly sculptured Battell Chapel. It is known to everybody that from time immemorial students of every college have looked upon daily perfunctory prayers as the bugbear of their lives. To stand over a young man with a policeman's club and compel him to worship, hardly conduces either to the glory of God or to the student's religious edification. Coercion at Harvard especially is something anomalous and discordant...