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...urge him on by inciting nobler ambitions, and do not regard him as a machine which has no motive power of its own, but must be watched and managed, then the evils attending college discipline will very readily disappear. The true way in which to meet this problem is to urge students to look at the subject in a clearer light, for students themselves to raise the student sentiment and discourage cribbing as unfair and unprofitable. Let the proctors be removed from examination rooms, make every man responsible to himself and college for honesty in examinations, let college sentiment...
...stroke is another problem which should be carefully studied, and the idea of first fixing a stroke and then training your crew to pull it, is sheer nonsense. We hear altogether too much about a thirty-eight, forty or forty-two stroke, and the men who advocate such a course have not carefully considered the matter. A crew should be trained to pull the highest stroke the men are capable of keeping up for the distance they are to row. If I should coach a crew of giants who proved themselves capable of holding a sixty stroke for four miles...
...following perplexing problem in Physics and Orthography was found among the "Queries" in the library. "Upon the bottom of an air tight box is placed a goose. Will the box and its contents way more or less than if the goose were in the centre of the box supporting herself on his wings...
...there has been a desire among those most interested in the welfare of the Union to make membership mean more than it has in the past. At the present, any student of the university can become a member simply by signing the constitution and paying a small fee. The problem which the committee had before them was to restrict membership in some way, but at the same time to retain the so-called cosmopolitism of the society. The following article was proposed. and will come up at the next meeting for final decision...
...mean that actions are indifferent, however wrong because they are all in the Infinite Thought. If this is Harvard teaching as to the bases of conduct and faith,' it means that modern scepticism, the pseudo-science of agnostic doubt, is in the ascendant, and that Harvard has the greatest problem of her history to solve, how to reconcile in a large and real sense the spirit of true science and the spirit of real religion...