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...been in great measure due to the many valuable exercising machines of Dr. Sargent's own invention, which were placed in it three years ago. He has invented others, equally valuable, since, but with the usual miserly conservatism of college governments, no inducement has been offered him to put them in the building, or, rather, no money has been put at his disposal for such a purpose. Many of the new ones are being placed in the Union Gymnasium, Boston, and in the gymnasiums at Johns Hopkins, Lehigh, Cornell and Amherst, which are being fitted on his plan, under...
Electric bells have been placed in the dormitories at Brown, to be used by students in summoning janitors. We would suggest that the same improvement be adopted at Harvard, if we did not feel that it would be too great an indignity to put upon that exalted class of beings to so much as suggest that janitors should be held obedient to a summons of that sort. Life at Harvard, moreover, is but a Spartan exercise in self-denying virtues, and such effeminacies should not be tolerated...
...hoped that there will be a full attendance of subscribers at the meeting to be held this evening, for the purpose of organizing a College Reading-Room Association. It is important that care be exercised in the selection of officers and directors, so that the association may be put under energetic and capable management. Upon this all depends; for the permanence and success of the undertaking all hinges upon a judicious and economical direction of affairs by these officers...
Lincoln, at No. 5, settles at finish, twists his body, hangs, and is apt to row a very disjointed stroke, while Harrison rows stiffly with a short reach, bending his arms too soon. Both men, however, are light, with considerable strength, and can undoubtedly be put into good form...
...swings back too far, jerks at the finish and keeps poor time. He also rows with crooked arms and does not put life enough into the stroke...