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...year we called attention to the sorry state of affairs caused by the delay in the completion of the gymnasium. It is a disgrace to the University that the thousand or more students who have always been dependent upon the Gymnasium for bathing accommodations should be left in this plight when partial relief could be afforded by throwing open the Carey Building. We believe that the Athletic Association could not refuse the use of the building for bathing purposes if the University would provide an engineer to look after the boilers. To be sure, the University is not responsible...
Until the completion of the Hemenway Gymnasium, the College would seem to be in a sorry plight as far as bathing facilities are concerned. In most of the dormitories there are no baths at all, and in none of them are there baths to spare: there must be hundreds of students who will find that passion for cleanliness, which seems characteristic of the Harvard undergraduate, ungratified. It does not seem quite fair that the College should bring students here and then leave them without the means to an end so important that it has been next to godliness...
...Yale on Thanksgiving Day. The future football prospects of the college depend on the outcome of the struggle. Defeated, they will see all their former prestige slip away, while if they win they will strengthen their position with the football public, but will put the association in a queer plight. Providing Princeton defeats Yale and Pennsylvania vanquishes Wesleyan, the standing of the colleges would be as follows...
...childish as he grows up; but this notion ought not to be fostered by the school system itself. The vast majority of men in college who are not blind to their own faults and deficiencies, will be found to admit that their knowledge of geography is in a woeful plight. In this point as in all other matters, we have a great deal to learn from the Germans. There this study is taught right through the school course for two hours a week, excepting in some gymnasia, where the last two years are devoted to other subjects. In the preliminary...
...unless it should be the case that his window is almost as strongly barred as those of a goal. Before the gratings with which the lower rooms of our colleges are fortified had been broken-down from without, the poor fellow within might be in as miserable a plight as the sinners who are represented in the 'Calvary' at Antwerp, kept in by bars and amidst the flames of Purgatory...