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Boating men at Yale are enthusiastic over the new freshman coxswain. He weighs about a hundred pounds when out of training, and will train down a good deal below that figure. In the distant future of education in this country looms up the problem of how closely a coxswain can approach' the line which separates entity from nothingness, and still be able to steer a shell between two rows of flags...
Daniel Pratt has at length unearthed the corner-stone of modern knowledge. He declared that "the unabridged dictionary is the most sane and valuable book in the world; that it is the key to every problem...
...said that it is doubtful if the consent of the college corporation to the improvements proposed could be obtained if desired. A statement of the plans proposed by the athletic committee of the faculty, in another article, reveals what would seem to be a satisfactory solution of the problem...
...live to be ninety-six years old to profit by his wounds. Another very curious thing is the fact that if one dines out but two nights in the week beef is always marked twenty-five cents all the other nights of that week. I have studied over this problem and have dined out of the hall on different nights with the express purpose of testing the fact, but I am invariably caught, on my return, with boiled mutton and turkey wings...
...usually given, in selecting a course; but that with many this thought does have some influence, cannot be denied, and as long as there is no perfectly uniform system of marking adopted in the college, it is very reasonable that one should consider this factor in solving the weighty problem of electives, however unfortunate and harmful, theoretically, the practice may be. The marking system when in use at all should be merely a clerical devise for the classification of students, but when every instructor is permitted to ride his pet hobby rough shod over the necks of his pupils...