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...Convention in regard to coxswains was practically nullified. That the Convention was really in favor of coxswains is shown by the fact that Trinity, the College of the President, is in favor of coxswains, but he, as a presiding officer, did not feel at liberty to use his power for a change...
...brought into the most intimate relations with Alma Mater by being chosen one of the Corporation, - a board which, although both in law and fact it is the College more truly than either the Faculty or the Overseers, rarely gets credit among the undergraduates or the community for the power and wisdom shown in its direct authority or its general influence. Dr. Walker's services as a Fellow of the College terminated only after a service of twenty-four years; and his devoted affection to the College, his wide knowledge of men, and his high, liberal, and sensible views...
...life were spent in most beautiful and honored retirement in our immediate neighborhood. He was re-elected to the Board of Overseers in 1864, and was a member of it at the time of his death. But Dr. Walker is remembered by his pupils and friends more for his power in the pulpit, than for all the services, invaluable as they were, which he rendered in secular life. Once in four weeks, for twenty years, he regularly preached in the College Chapel, and not infrequently in neighboring pulpits. It was an event to hear one of his sermons. The language...
...benefit in his instruction, but also from the difficulty which most persons find in collecting their ideas when distracted by the continual and irrelevant chattering of one who stands almost directly at their side. If they have a thorough knowledge of the question before them, very few possess sufficient power of abstraction to give, when thus disturbed, a clear and succinct answer. Some of the details always escape them; and when they are assured that their rank for the year will depend mainly upon these written recitations, they cannot but feel that it is unjust to compel them to write...
...substituted. This new rowing apparatus will be, as far as the kind of work goes, the same as that in the boat. What is to all intents and purposes an oar will be used, and this, at the end near the fulcrum, is attached to a piston. When the power is exerted, the piston is made to force water into a narrow cylinder, and thus is afforded resistance. The oarsmen, on these new weights, can practise a natural feather and recover, which heretofore they could not do. The seats are to be placed in the Gymnasium one behind the other...