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...revive a college sport for which she has so many advantages, and if the race is decided on she will probably send a formidable crew. We hope that the rowing interest will be awakened among our Freshmen, and that it will call forth the good material they undoubtedly possess. At the same time they would do well to remember the answer sent by the Columbia Freshmen, and to consider that it is their first duty to insure the success of the University crew...
After glancing at the lives and works of these masters, Professor Norton spoke at some length of the work with which Mr. Moore has been occupied during his stay in Italy, and expressed great satisfaction that the College should possess copies of such merit as those Mr. Moore has sent us. Mr. Norton considers these copies a great credit to the artist, as valuable, indeed, as originals; they show extraordinary care and delicacy, such as could have been given by a person of no less talents than Mr. Moore possesses...
...plainly as any one can the need of a man's sticking to the right if he would develop a character worth having, but at the same time I am convinced that to speak one's opinion effectively requires a degree of tact as well as determination that few possess. It is not eccentricity which is a matter of reproach at Harvard; it is the lack of manners and good sense...
Some one has aptly said that "the genuine gentleman must possess a good degree of moral freedom; but the gentleman robes manliness in courtesy...
...cannot conclude without looking at home, and considering the claims which Harvard students possess to be regarded as men. For a number of years past, but more particularly recently, the Faculty have endeavored to treat students as if they were sufficiently mature to judge for themselves in matters which concerned them personally. All unnecessary and childish rules have long been dispensed with, and a liberty of action has been granted them as great if not greater than that accorded in any other institution of learning in this country or in England. For this the Faculty have deserved, and have received...