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...think, gentlemen, that the same prohibition in track athletics has not lost us the Cup, and therefore that rowing can be similarly treated, you simply show your ignorance and lack of practical experience. The one is a matter of individual work; the other offers the problem of making eight men do at the same time each his best individually, and altogether their best collectively-making eight men work like eight men, and like one machine. The conditions are wholly different. Consider, gentlemen, what you are doing, and also explain the peculiar distinction you make between a professional (!) such...
...retire. If the Committee will state definitely what they intend to do, and will take a manly stand in the matter, we can assure them of the hearty support of the undergraduate sentiment in the college, and that they are doing their best to solve a very complex problem. If this sentiment meets the respect that it deserves, everything will be harmonious. While Pinafore rules and bib-and-tucker regulations are absurd in a university such as this, any changes that really will work for the welfare of the college are desired as much by the students...
...have spoken thus frankly because the situation seems to demand it, for the only actions taken by the Committee last year. were unfortunate in every way. If the present Committee, with its popularity among the students, and its personal interest in the welfare of the college cannot solve this problem, we confess that we are in despair of any further faculty regulation...
...November Atlantic has a large number of interesting articles. The serial, "In War Times," approaches a finish, and the paper on the "lakes of Upper Italy" reaches its third number. An unfinished sketch by the late Henry James, Sr., Prof. Shaler's "Negro Problem, the Embryo of a Common-wealth by Brooks Adams and a sketch of Aivazofsky by W. J. Armstrong are among the contributions. Poems are written by Whittier, Paul Hamilton, Hayne, R. N. Taylor and Julle K. Witherell...
Professor Shaler has an article in the November Atlantic on the "Negro Problem...